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''And Be a Villain'' (British title ''More Deaths Than One'') is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1948. The story was collected in the omnibus volumes ''Full House'' (Viking 1961) and ''Triple Zeck'' (Viking 1974). ==Plot introduction==
A radio show guest is poisoned on the air during a plug for the show's sponsor, a soft-drink manufacturer. The negative publicity, and the low bank balance at tax time, brings Nero Wolfe into the case — and into his first recorded encounter with a shadowy master criminal. ''And Be a Villain'' is the first of three Nero Wolfe books that involve crime syndicate leader Arnold Zeck and his widespread operations. The others in the Zeck Trilogy are ''The Second Confession'' and ''In the Best Families''. In each book, Zeck — Wolfe's Moriarty — telephones Wolfe to warn him off an investigation that Zeck believes will interfere with his crime syndicate. Each time, Wolfe refuses to cooperate, and anticipates that there will be consequences. The title is from Act I, Scene V, line 114 of William Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'', in which the prince says of his murderous uncle Claudius, "That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain." Remarking on the change from Stout's title to ''More Deaths Than One'' for the British edition, Rev. Fredrick G. Gotwald wrote, "It seems strange that the name was changed in a country from which the original came."〔Gotwald, Rev. Frederick G., ''The Nero Wolfe Companion'', volume 3, page 49〕
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