- Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
'Some buried Caesar': A prize bull, a restaurateur's tacky publicity stunt, a family feud (among the bull's owners), and the death of a family scion pit Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin against a special breed of killer.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Rex Stout
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 263
- Publisher
- Audio Partners, Farrar & Rinehart, Bantam
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780515033403
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“That sunny September day was full of surprises.”
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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