The Rubber Band

The Rubber Band
AuthorRex Stout
Cover artistWinifred E. Lefferts
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNero Wolfe
GenreDetective fiction
PublisherFarrar & Rinehart
Publication date
April 9, 1936
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages308 pp. (first edition)
OCLC4962869
Preceded byThe League of Frightened Men 
Followed byThe Red Box 

The Rubber Band is the third Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. Prior to its publication in 1936 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., the novel was serialized in six issues of The Saturday Evening Post (February 29 – April 4, 1936). Appearing in one 1960 paperback edition titled To Kill Again, The Rubber Band was also collected in the omnibus volume Five of a Kind (Viking 1961).