“Nero Wolfe towers over his rivals.he is an exceptional character creation.” - New YorkerĪ grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction’s greatest detectives. But can even the great detective outwit a killer smart enough to commit an unseen murder…in plain sight?. Now this league of frightened men is desperate for Nero Wolfe’s help. Yet they believed that Paul himself had forgiven them-until a class reunion ends in death and a series of poems promising more of the same. Paul Chapin’s Harvard cronies never forgave themselves for the hazing prank that left their friend a cripple. But this is a case with more twists than an angry rattler.and if Wolfe doesn’t handle it with extreme care, he’ll be the next one struck by a killer with poison in his heart. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, his partner, Archie Goodwin, suspects it means Wolfe is getting close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. The fer-de-lance is among the most deadly snakes known to man. Here, in Stout’s first two complete Wolfe mysteries, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town Archie Goodwin solve their most baffling cases. A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction’s greatest detectives.
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