- Fiction, Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Translations into Russian
Orrie Cather is engaged to Jill, but he's been seeing Isabel on the side. When he asks Archie Goodwin to break into her apartment and retrieve some incriminating paperwork, Archie agrees - but finds Isabel bludgeoned to death.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Rex Stout
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Viking Press, Collins, Brand: Viking Adult
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780553104189
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- Fiction
- Private investigators
- Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character)
- Translations into Russian
- Fiction in English
- American Detective and mystery stories
- Large type books
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- Wolfe, nero (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Private investigators, fiction
- detective
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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