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Loading... Might As Well Be Dead (A Nero Wolfe Mystery Book 27) (original 1956; edition 2010)by Rex Stout (Author)
Work InformationMight As Well Be Dead by Rex Stout (1956)
![]() No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() Might As Well Be Dead (1956) (Nero Wolfe #27) by Rex Stout. Wolfe is hired by a man out of the midwest to find his estranged son. Seems there had been a mistake a dozen years before, now revealed as a robbery by someone else, and the father wishes to make amends. Wolfe takes the missing persons case after the police’s failure to locate the young man. Within a few days Wolfe finds him, only it seems he is on trial for murder. As he can’t quite tell the repentant father this news, Wolfe makes the decision to have the verdict overturned by finding the true killer. The book is much more subtle that what I have just described, but it is a great one. Wily, twisty and turny, alibis have to be destroyed, the murdered man’s work as a “consultant” pawed through and the truth to be uncovered. Trouble is, no one can quite say just what the dead man did for sure nor explain away what was found in the safety deposit box. Well plotted with the signature banter between Archie and Nero, with the complete complement of Wolfe’s pack of detectives, and a rising death toll, Might As Well Be Dead ranks as one of Stout’s best. And, if you are going to be shut in during the Covid-19 outbreak, who better to stay inside with than that self-imposed hermit, Nero Wolfe? no reviews | add a review
Eleven years ago, wealthy Nebraska businessman James Herald gave his only son, Paul, a very raw deal. Now he wants Nero Wolfe to track Paul down so that he can make amends. But what if the young man doesn't want to be found ... and what if he's the same P.H. who's currently on trial for cold-blooded murder? Its a case that will draw the great detective and his dedicated sidekick, Archie Goodwin, into a sticky web of deceit one that will tax their resources to the utmost, and even cost them one of their own. No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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