The Black Mountain (A Nero Wolfe Mystery Book 24)

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Symons, Julian, Great Detectives: Seven Original Investigations (1981, Abrams; ISBN 0-8109-0978-2). Illustrated by Tom Adams. "We quiz Archie Goodwin in his den and gain a clue to the ultimate fate of Nero Wolfe" in a chapter titled "In Which Archie Goodwin Remembers."

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Stout, Rex (1998). Target Practice. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 9780786704965. 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. Too many cooks spoil the broth” is a common phrase, but in this novel, Too Many Cooks,itmeansthere’s a murder that Nero Wolfe can only solve. At a five-star gathering of some of the world’s best chefs and cooks, Wolfe is asked to give the keynote speech at the party. However, a surprise of poison and murder is mixed in with the other ingredients, and to find the killer and bring them to justice, Nero and Archie need to figure out which of the visiting guests has a killing plan. Stout, Rex T. (January 1914). "A Tyrant Abdicates". Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. 93: 92–96 . Retrieved 2015-03-21.So—a dedicated misogynist or a man with a protective shell because his wife came close to murdering him…or both? I’ll leave it to others to decide.

That doesn’t mean that Archie’s constant digs don’t annoy him sometimes: “Some day, Archie, when I decide you are no longer worth tolerating, you will have to marry a woman of very modest mental capacity to get an appropriate audience for your wretched sarcasms” ( Fer-de-Lance, 1934 ). This is a very unusual move for Wolfe, because, as previously noted, he hates going anywhere. Normally, he can’t abide vehicles, as expressed graphically in Some Buried Caesar (1939)—”My distrust and hatred of vehicles in motion is partly based on my plerophony that their apparent submission to control is illusory and that they may at their pleasure, and sooner or later will, act on whim”—and in The Red Box—“’Sir, I would not enter a taxicab for a chance to solve the Sphinx’s deepest riddle with all the Nile’s cargo as my reward.’ He sank his voice to an outraged murmur. ‘Good god. A taxicab.’” Crime story about counterfeiting with no continuing characters, set in New York City; serialized in five issues [1] :3 [6] [7] Before starting,” he said, “I put up in front of me a handwritten list of characters, but I’ve never written out a single word of any plot. The plots come when I’m shaving, watering the plants, puttering around. Sometimes I think of them for three weeks, sometimes for three days. If you keep the main facts firmly in mind, and you don’t let anything contradict you, you can move around freely.”Book club editions are bound in cardboard, and first editions are bound in cloth (or have at least a cloth spine). [6] Abridged as "Dark Vengeance" in The American Magazine (June 1939); republished as The Mountain Cat Murders [1] :16–17