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| Author | Rex Stout |
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| Cover artist | Winifred E. Lefferts |
| Language | English |
| Series | Nero Wolfe |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Farrar & Rinehart |
Publication date | April 9, 1936 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 308 pp. (first edition) |
| OCLC | 4962869 |
| Preceded by | The League of Frightened Men |
| Followed by | The 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).