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''Prisoner's Base'' (British title ''Out Goes She'') is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by Viking Press in 1952. ==Plot introduction== A young woman who will shortly inherit control of a large manufacturing firm wants to rent a room in Nero Wolfe's house. Wolfe, outraged, puts her out; she is found murdered later that night. With no client in sight, Wolfe is not interested, but Archie feels responsible. His first step is to crash a meeting of the manufacturer's board of directors. The 1992 Bantam edition reprints the typewritten title page of Rex Stout's 1952 manuscript, showing that the book's original title was ''Dare-Base.'' Dare-Base is a children's game, a variation on tag, also called prisoner's base. "The title on my manuscript was ''Dare-Base'', from a game we played in Kansas when I was a boy," Rex Stout told biographer John McAleer. "My publisher, Harold Guinzburg, said it was better known as prisoner's base."〔McAleer, John, ''Royal Decree''. Ashton, Maryland: Pontes Press, 1983, p. 67.〕 Late one night, Archie muses that the situation faced by one of the characters is like the game — it's up to her to get from one base to another without being tagged. But she does get tagged. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prisoner's Base」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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