- Fiction, mystery, Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character)
Archie Goodwin sits in for a friend at a charity dinner dance for unwed mothers, and one of the guests drops dead on the dance floor. The young woman was depressed and known to carry poison - but Archie is sure that this was murder.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Rex Stout
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 198
- Publisher
- Oscar Mondadori, Collins, Penguin
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780553136579
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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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