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| Author | Rex Stout |
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| Cover artist | Alan Harmon |
| Language | English |
| Series | Nero Wolfe |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Farrar & Rinehart |
Publication date | May 21, 1942 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 272 pp. (first edition) |
| OCLC | 4547020 |
| Preceded by | Where There's a Will |
| Followed by | Not Quite Dead Enough |
Black Orchids is a Nero Wolfe double mystery by Rex Stout published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Stout's first short story collection, the volume is composed of two novellas that had appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine:
- "Black Orchids" (August 1941, abridged as "Death Wears an Orchid")
- "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" (April 1942, abridged as "Invitation to Murder")