- Fiction, mystery, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Private investigators
Published 1957. Millionaire Otis Jarrell retains Nero Wolfe to get sufficient information on his daughter in law to persuade his son to divorce her. Susan Jarrell is not only unfaithful but she's selling business secrets to one of Jarrell's competitors - or so Jarrell claims.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Rex Stout
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Collins, Audio Partners, Bantam
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9789992188118
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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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