- Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Fiction, Prize contests in advertising
When a contestant is killed during the final round of the Pour Amour perfume contest, Nero Wolfe must find the person who stole the recipe to the dead contestant's perfume in order to solve the crime.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Rex Stout
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 188
- Publisher
- Bantam, Viking Press, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670155255
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- Private investigators
- Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Prize contests in advertising
- Large type books
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- Wolfe, nero (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Private investigators, fiction
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
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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