Nero Wolfe

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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Some Buried Caesar

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Some Buried Caesar

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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The Rubber Band

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The Rubber Band

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a New York City brownstone. In only the third of the Nero Wolfe mysteries, author Rex Stout is in top form. It’s a complicated case Nero Wolfe accepts in The Rubber Band. First, it involves a female client (notably not his preference). Second, it’s not one situation for which she needs Wolfe’s help, it’s several. One involves a debt owed to Clara Fox and others by the Marquis of Clivers which she hopes Wolfe to be able to help successfully obtain. The second involves a theft of a large sum of money where all evidence points to her as the thief (including the money later being discovered in her car). And the third involves a pair of murders of the people Clara represents owed an equal share of the Marquis’ debt.

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Black Orchids

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Black Orchids

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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And Be a Villain

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And Be a Villain

Throwback Thursday takes us back to a New York City brownstone on the southside of West 35 Street and the mystery of a murder broadcast live on radio. Originally published in 1948, With more than a dozen Nero Wolfe mysteries under his belt, Rex Stout‘s And Be a Villain gives the great detective a case which will frustrate and confound both Wolfe and Archie for almost the entire novel when he’s hired to discover who poisoned a guest on a popular radio program during the sponsor’s commercial break.

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