Murder Is No Joke

"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).

Gallant became a highly regarded couturier (as Wolfe later terms him, "an illustrious dressmaker") with a studio employing several staff, including Flora.

Fearing for her brother's career, Flora calls at Nero Wolfe's office and asks him to investigate the situation.

In reporting this exchange, Archie Goodwin claims that it is Flora's choice of phrasing, instead of an informal "We'll see" or "We will see," that moves Wolfe to acquiesce.

Written and directed by Toronto actor and producer Ron Hartmann,[5] the hour-long adaptation aired on CBC Stereo April 10, 1982.