Editing Rex Stout (section)

===Cultural references===
"A number of the paintings of [[René Magritte]] (1898–1967), the internationally famous Belgian painter, are named after titles of books by Rex Stout," wrote Harry Torczyner, Magritte's attorney and friend.<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|578}}{{efn|McAleer quotes a letter dated May 24, 1974, that he received from Torczyner, a New York collector who was also [[Georges Simenon]]'s attorney.}}{{efn|"We know the importance granted to the words by Magritte in his paintings and we know the impact that literary works such as [[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]]'s, Rex Stout's or [[Stéphane Mallarmé|Mallarmé]]'s had on him," wrote the [[Magritte Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.magrittemuseum.be/code/en/main2_3.htm |title=The Brussels Surrealist Group |publisher=[[Magritte Museum]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125000329/http://magrittemuseum.be/code/en/main2_3.htm |archive-date=November 25, 2010 |access-date=2015-03-22}}</ref>}} "He read Hegel, Heidegger and Sartre, as well as [[Dashiell Hammett]], Rex Stout and [[Georges Simenon]]," the ''[[Times Higher Education]] Supplement'' wrote of Magritte. "Some of his best titles were 'found' in this way."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Danchev |first=Alex |date=June 30, 2011 |title=Canny Resemblance |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=416652&sectioncode=26 |journal=Times Higher Education Supplement |access-date=2015-03-22}}</ref> Magritte's 1942 painting ''Les compagnons de la peur'' ("The Companions of Fear") bears the title given to ''[[The League of Frightened Men]]'' (1935) when it was published in France by [[Éditions Gallimard|Gallimard]] (1939). It is one of Magritte's series of "leaf-bird" paintings, created during the Nazi occupation of Brussels. It depicts a stormy, mountainous landscape in which a cluster of plants has metamorphosed into a group of vigilant owls.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mattesonart.com/1931-1942-brussels--pre-war-years.aspx |title=Rene Magritte Gallery, 1931–1942 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Matteson Art |access-date=2015-03-22}}</ref>

Stout is also mentioned in Ian Fleming's James Bond book ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' (1963).{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}