Seven Complete Nero Wolfe Novels
by Rex Stout 
Nero Wolfe (Collections and Selections — omnibus 11, 27, 29, 33, 37, 45, 46)
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Contents: Three at Wolfe's door--Might as well be dead--Silent speaker--etc.Tags
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This 11th in the series is classic Wolf with an interesting story and characters. The head of a government agency (Bureau of price regulation) is murdered while he is waiting to deliver a speech at a large meeting of the National Industrial Association. Since the two groups are constantly at loggerheads the entire country assumes that NIA is the culprit. NIA hires Wolf to find the murderer on the assumption that once an individual is identified the Association will not be taking the heat. I caught the very early clue that showed Wolf the direction to look for the killer but the story and how to get the evidence was interesting enough that I was never bored.
Currently plowing through Gambit, only one left to go --
(The Silent Speaker / Might as Well Be Dead / If Death Ever Slept / 3 at Wolfe's Door / Gambit / Please Pass the Guilt / A Family Affair)
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Author Rex Stout was born on December 1, 1886. A child prodigy with a gift for mathematics, Stout drifted as he became an adult, holding odd jobs in many places---cook, cabinetmaker, bellhop, hotel manager, salesman, bookkeeper, and even a guide in a pueblo. But his true talent lay in storytelling; he sold his first story, about William Howard show more Taft, in 1912. His most famous creation is Nero Wolfe, a 286-pound detective genius who, with sidekick Archie Goodwin, can often solve a case without leaving his room. It is the way in which the puzzle is solved that intrigues Nero Wolfe, who is much like Sherlock Holmes in his ability to use deductive reasoning. More than 60 million copies (in 24 languages) of Stout's books have been sold. Stout writes quickly, drawing upon a lifetime of impressions. He neither uses an outline nor revises; he lets his characters take over as the story develops. The classy, erudite Nero Wolfe presents for readers an alternative to the hard-boiled branch of the genre. He died on October 27, 1975 (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1983 (omnibus) (omnibus)
- People/Characters
- Fritz Brenner; Orrie Cather; Lionel T. Cramer; Fred Durkin; Archie Goodwin; Saul Panzer (show all 12); Nero Wolfe; Purley Stebbins; George Rowcliff; Theodore Horstmann; Lily Rowan; Lon Cohen
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA
- Important events
- Watergate Scandal
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.52
- Canonical LCC
- PS3537.T733 A6 1983
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
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- (4.19)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 3
