- Fiction, Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, American
Home To Roost – a young man with public and pronounced left-wing leanings is murdered. Was he a Communist, a double agent, or neither? The FBI and the NYPD are not happy when his family hires Nero Wolfe to investigate.
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Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Rex Stout
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Creative Media Partners, LLC, Bantam, Arnoldo Mondadori
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780553028386
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- Fiction
- Private investigators
- Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character)
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- American Detective and mystery stories
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Wolfe, nero (fictitious character), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas or short stories between 1934 and 1975.
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