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Shorter novels about Nero Wolfe and Archie are already known to, and cherished by, thousands of his fans who have encountered this department of Rex Stout's writing in the pages of The American Magazine. From time to time in the past, some of them have been published two to a volume at the same price as one of his full-length works. These novelettes have been acclaimed as possessing all the full plot development, the artful characterization, and the narrative flow which have made Some Buried Caesar, The Silent Speaker, and And Be a Villain classics of the modern mystery novel.
Now, for the first time, three of his novelettes, hitherto unpublished in book form, are presented in a single volume at the price of one Nero Wolfe novel. These three may be the best he has ever written. Certainly nowhere else in the literature of the overweight orchid grower will you find more suspense or more loving attention to the details of motivation, deduction and denouement. Here, within one rewarding volume, you will find the meaty essence of three full-scale whodunits.
This is Nero Wolfe as he ever was, in all his laziness and all his genius - and in greater quantity than his most devout followers ever before hoped to see him. |
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