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Name: Target Practice
Author: Rex Stout

Target Practice gathers Rex Stout’s complete short fiction from All-Story Magazine, a prestigious journal that showcased his early writings. The anthology features “Secrets,” Stout’s first crime story, and “Justice Ends at Home,” which contains early hints of the future Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin partnership, along with fifteen other polished detective tales.

First publish date: 1998

Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator

Authors: Rex Stout

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