The Last Drive and Other Stories

Appendix: The Early Fiction of Rex Stout

“Excess Baggage” Short Stories, October 1912[1]

“The Infernal Feminine” Short Stories, November 1912[2]

“The Paisley” Young’s Magazine, November 1912[3]

“Billy Du Mont, Reporter” Young’s Magazine, December 1912[4]

“A Professional Recall” The Black Cat, December 1912[5]

“Barnacles” Young’s Magazine, January 1913[6]

“Pamfret and Peace” The Black Cat, January 1913[7]

“A Companion of Fortune” Short Stories, April 1913[8]

“A White Precipitate” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, June 1913[9]

“The Pickled Picnic” The Black Cat, June 1913[10]

“The Mother of Invention” The Black Cat, August 1913[11]

Her Forbidden Knight The All-Story, August 1913 to December 1913[12]

“Méthode Américaine” The Smart Set, November 1913[13]

“A Tyrant Abdicates” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, January 1914[14]

“The Pay-Yeoman” The All-Story, January 1914[15]

Under the Andes The All-Story, February 1914[16]

“Secrets” All-Story Weekly, March 7, 1914[17]

“Rose Orchid” All-Story Weekly, March 28, 1914[18]

“An Agacella Or” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, April 1914[19]

“The Inevitable Third” All-Story Weekly, April 25, 1914[20]

A Prize for Princes All-Story [Cavalier] Weekly, May 2 to May 30, 1914[21]

“Out of the Line” All-Story Cavalier Weekly, June 13, 1914[22]

“The Lie” All-Story Cavalier Weekly, July 4, 1914[23]

“Target Practise” All-Story Cavalier Weekly, December 26, 1914[24]

“If He Be Married” All-Star Cavalier Weekly, January 16, 1915[25]

“Baba” All-Star Cavalier Weekly, January 30, 1915[26]

“Warner & Wife” All-Story Cavalier Weekly, February 27, 1915[27]

“A Little Love Affair” Smith’s Magazine, July 1915[28]

“Art for Art’s Sake” Smith’s Magazine, August 1915[29]

“Another Little Love Affair” Smith’s Magazine, September 1915[30]

“Jonathan Stannard’s All-Story Weekly, September 11, Secret Vice” 1915[31]

“Sanétomo” All-Story Weekly, September 25, 1915[32]

“The Strong Man” Young’s Magazine, November 1915[33]

“Justice Ends at Home” All-Story Weekly, December 4, 1915[34]

“Two Kisses” Breezy Stories, January 1916[35]

The Great Legend All-Story Weekly, January 1, 1916[36]

“Ask the Egyptians” Golfers Magazine, March 1916[37]

“This Is My Wife” Snappy Stories, March [issue 2] 1916[38]

“Second Edition” Young’s Magazine, April 1916[39]

“It’s Science That Counts” All-Story Weekly, April 1, 1916[40]

“The Rope Dance” All-Story Weekly, June 24, 1916[41]

The Last Drive Golfers Magazine, July to December 1916[42]

“It Happened Last Night” The Black Cat, January 1917[43]

“An Officer and a Lady” All-Story Weekly, January 13, 1917[44]

“Heels of Fate” All-Story Weekly, November 17, 1917[45]

“Old Fools and Young” Young’s Magazine, April 1918[46]

The illustrations accompanying The Last Drive first appeared in Golfers Magazine, July to December 1916.