Edited sentence: 1, 1886, is either the victim of false records or the beneficiary of a biological aberration, eternal youth.His new New Wolfe threesome, Trio for Blunt Instruments, keeps him right where he has been for so long — on top of the heap and the liveliest of all detective fiction writers.John Canaday, The New York Times (May 28, 1964) — Rex Stout, who gives his birth date as Dec