- Private investigators, Fiction in English, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Fiction
From Wikipedia: "I never knew a plaguier case. We have all the knowledge we need, and not a shred of presentable evidence. Unless the red box is found—are we actually going to be forced to send Saul to Scotland or Spain or both?
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Rex Stout
- First published
- 1937
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- (Distributed by Hutchinson), Jove Books, Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9781602833500
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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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