Nero Wolfe mysteries
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1) Fer-de-Lance
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 1
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As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda — whistling a seductive tune he hopes will catch a killer who's...
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 2
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English
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Paul Chapin’s college cronies never quite forgave themselves for instigating the tragic prank that left their friend a twisted cripple. Yet with their hazing days at Harvard far behind them, they had every reason to believe that Paul himself had forgiven them—until a class reunion ends in a fatal fall, and the poems, swearing deadly retribution, begin to arrive. Now this league of frightened men is desperate for Nero Wolfe’s help....
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 3
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English
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“Nero Wolfe towers over his rivals. . . . He is an exceptional character creation.”—New Yorker
What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services, it becomes Nero Wolfe’s job to look deeper and find the connection. A forty-year-old pact, a five-thousand-mile search, and a million-dollar murder are all linked...
What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services, it becomes Nero Wolfe’s job to look deeper and find the connection. A forty-year-old pact, a five-thousand-mile search, and a million-dollar murder are all linked...
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The red box , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 4
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Too many cooks: a Nero Wolfe mystery , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 5
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 6
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English
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An automobile breakdown strands Nero Wolfe and Archie in the middle of a private pasture—and a family feud over a prize bull. A restaurateur’s plan to buy the stud and barbecue it as a publicity stunt may be in poor taste, but it isn’t a crime . . . until Hickory Caesar Grindon, the soon-to-be-beefsteak bull, is found pawing the remains of a family scion. Wolfe is sure the idea that Caesar is the murderer is, well, pure bull. Now...
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Over my dead body , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 7
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
1982.
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314 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 9
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1982.
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301 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 10
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2007
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English
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The army wants Nero Wolfe urgently, but he refuses their clarion call to duty. It takes Archie Goodwin to titillate Wolfe’s taste for crime with two malevolent morsels: a corpse that refuses to rest in peace and a sinister “accident” involving national security. It’s up to the Grandiose Master himself, Nero Wolfe, to set the traps to catch a pair of wily killers—as Archie lays the bait on the wrong side of the law.
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The silent speaker , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 11
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13) And Be a Villain
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 13
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English
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Madeline Fraser, radio talk show host extraordinaire, had a natural dread of dead air. So when one of her on-air guests signed off at the mike after drinking a glass of a sponsor’s beverage, it was a broadcaster’s nightmare come true. Enter Nero Wolfe. He agrees to take the case, with his sizable fee contingent on his solving the murder. But to Wolfe’s surprise, everyone connected to the case now lies in unison about it. And as the...
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Trouble in triplicate , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 14
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Three doors to death , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 16
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In the best families , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 17
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Curtains for three , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 18
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Murder by the book , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 19
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Triple jeopardy , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 20
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The golden spiders , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 22
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Three men out , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 23
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The black mountain , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 24
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25) Before midnight
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 25
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English
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The scent of murder is in the air at the great Pour Amour perfume contest, and the incomparable Nero Wolfe is intent on sniffing out the killer. The foul deed is committed during the contest’s final round. Only five riddles separate the contestants from the million-dollar cash prize when someone finds the sweet smell of success too intoxicating to leave to chance. Now the contest creator is dead and the answers stolen from his wallet, and it’s...
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Three witnesses: a Nero Wolfe threesome , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 26
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Might as well be dead , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 27
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Three for the chair: a Nero Wolfe mystery , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 28
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If death ever slept , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 29
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 30
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review
Embark on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring with sudden death at the Easter Parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked with corpses when death is in season. Here are...
Embark on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring with sudden death at the Easter Parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked with corpses when death is in season. Here are...
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Plot it yourself , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 32
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Three at Wolfe's door , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 33
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Too many clients , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 34
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The final deduction , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 35
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Homicide trinity: a Nero Wolfe threesome , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 36
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37) Gambit
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 37
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English
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A private club is the setting for murder when Paul Jerim, playing chess with twelve opponents, is poisoned. When her father is accused of the murder, beautiful Sally Blount calls on gourmet detective Nero Wolfe to find the real killer.
38) The mother hunt
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When an abandoned baby is left on her doorstep, the young socialite widow knows only too well the identity of the father: her deceased philanderer of a husband. But who is the mother? The case seems like child's play to Nero Wolfe, until the first dead body. While the police nurse their grudges against him, and the widow nurses Archie, the genius sleuth and his sidekick look for the hand that rocked the cradle. But nothing can pacify the killer, who's...
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Trio for blunt instruments: a Nero Wolfe Threesome , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 39
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There's no one or nothing the great detective Nero Wolfe wouldn't take on if the price was right. That's something wealthy society widow Rachel Bruner is counting on when she writes him a check for a whopping hundred grand. The oversize genius and his able assistant Archie Goodwin soon find out why the prize is so generous as they lock horns with the FBI. And these highly trained G-men have a way with threats, tails, and bugs that could give even...
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Death of a doxy , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 42
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The father hunt , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 43
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44) Death of a Dude
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 44
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English
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The mountain couldn’t come to Wolfe, so the great detective came to the mountain—to Lame Horse, Montana, to be exact. Here a city slicker got a country girl pregnant and then took a bullet in the back. Wolfe’s job was to get an innocent man exonerated of the crime and catch a killer in the process. But when he packed his silk pajamas and headed west, he found himself embroiled in a case rife with local cynicism, slipshod police work,...
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 45
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A brilliant Rex Stout murder mystery featuring Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin
A bomb explodes in the desk drawer of a top TV executive. Was it intended for him or the man who opened the drawer? They each had enemies enough to die a dozen times over. Was it the jealous wife or the ambitious partner? The secretary who got passed around like an inter-office memo? Or the man who couldn’t wash the blood off his hands? Nero Wolfe...
A bomb explodes in the desk drawer of a top TV executive. Was it intended for him or the man who opened the drawer? They each had enemies enough to die a dozen times over. Was it the jealous wife or the ambitious partner? The secretary who got passed around like an inter-office memo? Or the man who couldn’t wash the blood off his hands? Nero Wolfe...
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 46
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What could make Nero Wolfe so determined to solve a crime that he would be willing to work entirely without fee or client? What would it take to put him, for the first time, at a loss for words? What would make him so angry about a case that he would refuse to speak to the police, even if he has to spend fifty-one hours in jail as a result? Never before in the Nero Wolfe books has Rex Stout shown us the extremes to which the greatest detective in...
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 47
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Murder strikes thrice in these three baffling mysteries of crime and detection. First, Stout's great detective, Nero Wolfe, develops an appetite for the sweet taste of revenge when someone slips something most foul into his lunch. Then, a couturier's beautiful sister uses Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's man about town, as her ready-made alibi–and maybe fall guy–unless Wolfe can spot the loose ends in a nearly seamless crime. Finally, Wolfe has...
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 48
Pub. Date
[1986]
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284 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 49
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[1987]
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316 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 50
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1988.
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312 pages ; 23 cm
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The last coincidence , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 51
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52) Fade to black
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 52
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1991.
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Silver spire , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 53
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The missing chapter , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 54
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2021
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English
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In 1930, young Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks—with a pair of hot lead slugs.
Dismissed from his job for being "trigger-happy," he parlays his newfound notoriety into a job as a detective's assistant, helping honest sleuth Del Bascom solve cases like the Morningside Piano Heist, the Rive Gauche Art Gallery Swindle,
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 57
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2015.
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271 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"When Archie Goodwin's life is threatened, Wolfe must find the gunman or lose his right-hand man"--
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 58
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2016.
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242 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Detective Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are tasked with protecting, Cameron Clay, the Gazette's most hated columnist in New York City, after he begins to receive anonymous death threats. Death threats are a regular hazard for Clay, who has hurled insults and accusations at every boldfaced name in the five boroughs, but the latest ones carried a more sinister tone.
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2017.
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236 pages ; 21 cm.
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When a renowned theater director senses something amiss during his latest production, he calls in Nero Wolfe. Though the corpulent genius wouldn't normally accept a job this vague, a mutual friend dangles the prospect of a very rare orchid in exchange for his services, and Wolfe can't resist. With a mind to suss out useful backstage gossip, Wolfe turns to his faithful assistant, Archie Goodwin, to impersonate a journalist in order to speak to the...
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The battered badge , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 60
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Death of an art collector: a Nero Wolfe mystery , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 61
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Archie goes home , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 62
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Trouble at the brownstone , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 63
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The missing heiress , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 64
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The Nero Wolfe cookbook
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