- Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Fiction, Large type books
Nero Wolfe's oldest friend, Marko Vukcic, has been murdered. Wolfe's quest to find the murderer forces him (and the long-suffering Archie) to return to his homeland, Montenegro, where Yugoslav and Russian communists are all likely to kill him. Not to mention the difficulty of climbing a mountain when one weighs a seventh of a ton.
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Classical in form, resolved, cool and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Rex Stout
- First published
- 1954
- Pages
- 188
- Publisher
- Hamilton, The Audio Partners, Mystery Masters, The Audio Partners
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9789997525116
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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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