The Black Mountain (A Nero Wolfe Mystery Book 24)

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Wolfe and Inspector Cramer question the employees there, and Wolfe and Archie return to the brownstone to find a surprise visitor: Wolfe's adopted daughter Carla. She and Marko have been involved in a movement to secure Montenegro's independence from Yugoslavia, and she is furious at Wolfe's refusal to support the effort. Wolfe tries to question her, but she is reluctant to give any information, since she believes that he may be in league with the government of Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union. A Family Affair is an unusual Nero Wolfe mystery in that Archie reveals his (correct) opinion of the killer's identity well before Wolfe does so in the closing chapters. All I can say is Wow! Considering the fact that this book was written in 1954, it seems very presc An appearance of immunity? Under pressure of necessity? It brings to mind the passage in Over My Dead Body: “I carry this fat to insulate my feelings. They got too strong for me once or twice….I used to be idiotically romantic. I still am, but I’ve got it in hand.” Although Stritar is skeptical of Wolfe's explanation, he allows the two to go about their business, but dispatches Jubé to follow them. Wolfe and Archie travel to the home of Marko's nephew Danilo, who had passed the messages on to Telesio and who has been helping Marko and Carla smuggle weapons and supplies in from the United States. Danilo learns of Jubé's surveillance and has him killed, then reluctantly agrees to take Wolfe and Archie into the mountains for a meeting with Josip Pasic, one member of a guerrilla team in the independence movement. From Pasic, Wolfe learns that Carla had begun to suspect that a spy had infiltrated the group; she slipped into Albania to infiltrate a Russian-controlled fort and gather information, only to be killed instead.

Auburn, California: The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., Mystery Masters ISBN 1-57270-545-0 August 28, 2006 [1997], audio CD (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard) Stout, Rex (1914). A Prize for Princes. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers [1994]. ISBN 0786701048.

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In these eleven days, I have learned that psychology, as a formal science, is pure hocus-pocus. All written and printed words, aside from their function of relieving boredom, are meaningless drivel” Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men 3. Too Many Cooks a b c McAleer, John J. (1977). Rex Stout: A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780316553407.

It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore. - The New York Times Book Review Pet the Dog: We witness a rare moment of tenderness on Wolfe's part when he and Archie are taken upstairs by Danilo's wife to see the sleeping children. While looking at the children, Wolfe says something in Serbian, and later refuses to translate the remark for Archie. All in all, this volume is a reboot, a palate cleanser, a clean-up novel, whatever you wish to consider it. After this, the Nero Wolfe series ossified entirely into its classic form, freed of the baggage of the earlier period, and these characters and their former importance almost vanish from our view.This is a bibliography of fiction by and works about the American writer Rex Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975), an American writer noted for his detective fiction. He began his literary career in the 1910s, writing more than 40 stories that appeared primarily in pulp magazines between 1912 and 1918. He then wrote no fiction for more than a decade, until the late 1920s, when he had saved enough money through his business activities to write when and what he pleased. In 1929, he wrote his first published book, How Like a God, an unusual psychological story written in the second person. He wrote a pioneering political thriller, The President Vanishes (1934), before specializing in detective fiction. His 1934 novel Fer-de-Lance introduced his best-known characters, detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas and short stories between 1934 and 1975. In 1959, Stout received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated as Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon XXXI, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated as Best Mystery Writer of the Century. The League of Frightened Men is the second book in the Nero Wolfe series and was published just after Fer-de-Lance in 1935. The novel tells the story of a group of frightened college friends who instigated a prank that left their friend tragically crippled. After an unexpected death at a class reunion and mysterious poems that promise revenge, the group is convinced their old friend is after them. They turn to Nero Wolfe and Archie to solve the case and save their lives. Stout, Rex (1913). Her Forbidden Knight. New York: Severn House Publishers [1997]. ISBN 0727853694. Fritz came in with a piece of paper in his hand and demanded, ‘Were you drunk when you wrote this?” Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy 13. The Father Hunt