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| Author | Rex Stout |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Nero Wolfe |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Farrar & Rinehart |
Publication date | August 17, 1938 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 303 pp. (first edition) |
| OCLC | 3103529 |
| Preceded by | The Red Box |
| Followed by | Some Buried Caesar |
Too Many Cooks is the fifth Nero Wolfe detective novel by American mystery writer Rex Stout. The story was serialized in The American Magazine (March–August 1938) before its publication in book form in 1938 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. The novel was collected in the omnibus volume Kings Full of Aces, published in 1969 by the Viking Press.