- Fiction, mystery, Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character)
Nero Wolfe leaves his Manhattan brownstone to travel to the resort of Kanawha Spa, in order to give a speech to a group of famous chefs (and not coincidentally, to eat each man's specialties, prepared for an annual dinner). When one of their number is killed, Wolfe and Archie have to wade through a tangled web of lies and clues, both criminal and gustatory.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Rex Stout
- First published
- 1938
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Garland Pub., Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Pub
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780515032956
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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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