| "Murder Is No Joke" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Rex Stout | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Detective fiction |
| Publication | |
| Published in | And Four to Go |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Publication date | April 29, 1958 |
| Series | Nero Wolfe |
"Murder Is No Joke" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, first published in the 1958 short-story collection And Four to Go (Viking Press).
Stout subsequently rewrote and expanded the story as "Frame-Up for Murder", serialized in three issues of The Saturday Evening Post (June 21–July 5, 1958). It is the only time Stout rewrote and expanded a story for a magazine. "Frame-Up for Murder" was collected for the first time in book form in the Bantam Books short-story collection, Death Times Three (1985).