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Too Many Cooks

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Wayback Wednesday takes us back to another mystery with New York’s famous detective Nero Wolfe. Initially released in six issues of The American Magazine, which coincided with a 12-city tour across the Northeast and Midwest, Too Many Cooks was then collected and published for the first time in 1938. The fifth of Rex Stout’s novels has some peculiarities which make it standout of the series. First, not a single scene of the entire story takes place within the confines of the New York City brownstone. Second, Wolfe is shot over the course of events forcing him to solve a crime he had already decided to ignore.

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The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy

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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews looking into a cursed mummy who has begun to whisper. Brought to their attention by Hector Sebastian (Alfred Hitchcock in the original printing), the boys attempt to help decipher the mystery of Egyptologist Professor Yarborough‘s 3,000 year-old mummy and a series of peculiar events that have happened since the professor brought the mummy home. The fact that the mummy only speaks to Yarborough initially makes the Investigators suspicious, at least until Jupiter hears the mummy himself.

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