Nero Wolfe

• Title: Some Buried Caesar
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to another mystery with New York’s famous detective Nero Wolfe. The sixth Nero Wolfe novel is unusual in that no part of the novel takes place within the homey confines of the New York brownstone. In fact, none of it takes place within New York City. Instead we start on the road with Archie Goodwin and Wolfe on the way to an agricultural event in the rural areas of upstate New York involving the investigator’s prized orchids where a car accident leaves the pair stranded, wandering into a pasture where they are intimidated by a bull, stuck in the middle of a commotion concerning the bull’s fate, and eventually hired to solve a murder.

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• Title: Black Orchids
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to a New York City, a famous detective, and murder. Sent day after day to New York’s flower show to report back to Nero Wolfe on Lewis Hewitt’s famous orchids which have Wolfe obsessed, Archie Goodwin takes notice of a couple in one of the other exhibits who perform the same scene of a summer picnic every day. On the day Wolfe himself arrives to get a look at the orchids, Archie notices something odd about scene, discovering murder has been committed in public and that he, without realizing it, was the method used for the performer’s death.

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