Nero Wolfe mysteries
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The league of frightened men , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 2
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The red box , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 4
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Black orchids , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 9
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Not quite dead enough , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 10
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Originally published in 1946, The Silent Speaker unfolds yet another mystery starring the vainglorious detective Nero Wolfe and his quick-thinking assistant Archie Goodwin. When Cheney Boone, the Director of the Bureau of Price Regulation, is murdered with a monkey wrench just minutes before he presents a speech at a National Industrial Association dinner, the Association hires Nero Wolfe to solve the troubling murder mystery.
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Too many women , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 12
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And be a villain , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 13
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Trouble in triplicate , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 14
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The second confession , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 15
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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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21) Prisoner's base
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Three women have been strangled - and Archie feels responsible. Nero Wolfe sorts through dirty laundry to find the killer of towel company heiress.
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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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Three for the chair: a Nero Wolfe mystery , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 28
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And four to go , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 30
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Champagne for one , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 31
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Plot it yourself , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 32
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Too many clients , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 34
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 35
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New Bantam edition.
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Homicide trinity: a Nero Wolfe threesome , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 36
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Trio for blunt instruments: a Nero Wolfe Threesome , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 39
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The doorbell rang , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 41
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 43
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Amy Denovo wants to find the father she has never seen, and uses part of the quarter of a million dollars left her by her unknown father to hire Nero Wolfe. But when Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, begin to trace the man, they make a stratling discovery: Amy's father murdered her mother, and now he may be after Amy.
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Death of a dude , Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 44
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There were seven suspects. Kenneth Meer wasn't one of them. Yet a week after the explosion, he was in the psychiatric ward suffering from something the doctors called the Lady Macbeth syndrome: invisible blood on the hands. Meanwhile, a man who had killed for no reason was wandering around with a bomb in a briefcase.
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 48
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Two years after Wolfe's retirement, his past returns with deadly intent It wasn't Nero Wolfe's idea for Orrie Cather to kill himself, but the great detective gave his blessing to his longtime associate's plan. Cather had killed three people, and it was only fair to pay the price. Though Wolfe reacted to Cather's death with his characteristic calmness, prize assistant Archie Goodwin could see the rotund genius of West Thirty-Fifth Street was shaken...
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 49
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To save his favorite newspaper, Wolfe steps into the crossfire of a tabloid war Master sleuth Nero Wolfe's small circle of friends is limited to his assistant Archie Goodwin, his chef Fritz, and Lon Cohen, the head man at the New York Gazette. Cohen knows more about the city's power structure than any man in Manhattan, and for years he happily passed Wolfe information in return for the odd exclusive scoop. But now Cohen needs Wolfe's help, for the...
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 50
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When a great thinker takes a nasty tumble, Wolfe goes back to school A conservative academic, so far to the right that he thought Ronald Reagan was a pinko, Hale Markham rules Prescott University like an intellectual tyrant-right up until the morning he is found dead at the bottom of one of Prescott's famously beautiful ravines. Every liberal on campus hated the crotchety old crank, but which one is responsible for giving Markham his final push to...
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 51
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After the heir to a frozen-food fortune gets iced, Wolfe's right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, becomes a suspect When Lily Rowan doesn't laugh at his jokes, Archie Goodwin knows something is wrong. Her niece Noreen has been running around with Sparky Linville, a club-hopping bad boy who is the terror of Manhattan nightlife. And the last time she went out with him, Noreen wasn't herself when she came home. All she would tell her aunt was that she had been...
52) Fade to black
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 52
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Wolfe investigates a sticky matter of Cola Wars espionage For the men of Madison Avenue, the battle between soft drink giants Cherr-o-key and AmeriCherry seems heaven-sent. For years now, the firm of Mills/Lake/Ryman has fought to help Cherr-o-key become the nation's favorite fizzy cherry soda, but each time they come up with a new slogan, mascot, or jingle, AmeriCherry has beaten them to it. There is a mole inside the agency, and only Nero Wolfe...
53) Silver spire
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When a fellow shamus gets charged with murder, Wolfe comes to his rescue. Staten Island would be forgettable were it not for the gleaming Tabernacle of the Silver Spire, where thousands of congregants come every Sunday to hear the sermons of Barnabas Bay. Millions more tune in on television, giving the good Reverend international fame, and a chance to spread the gospel from New York City's harbor all the way to South Korea. But threatening notes have...
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When a loudmouthed author gets silenced, Wolfe looks for the triggerman The gun was fired close to Charles Childress's head, and his were the only fingerprints on it, forcing the police to conclude that the author committed suicide. But his friends know this is impossible, because Childress loved himself far too much. He had just begun attracting fame, writing new mysteries starring the iconic Sergeant Barnstable, and he had bright hopes for the future....
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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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"Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. Panzer spies state senator Orson Milbank, a silver-haired scoundrel with enemies in every corner of upstate New York, sitting in the box seats. In the fourth inning, a monstrous line drive brings every fan in the grandstand to his feet -- every fan save for one silver-haired senator, who has been shot dead...
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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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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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"When wealthy and popular crusader and reformer Lester Pierce is gunned down in front of his Park Avenue residence, the public outcry forces the NYPD to restructure its homicide department. As the deceased was highly critical of Inspector Lionel Cramer, the longtime head of homicide is temporarily relieved of his badge. But it seems Cramer was not just a scapegoat: He was seen dining in Little Italy with mob kingpin Ralph Mars ... Despite the burgeoning...
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No matter how fabulously he is being courted, infamously dour “art hog” Arthur Wordell isn't keen on favoring the new Guggenheim Museum with his extensive collection. Even at the urging of his beloved daughter, Nadia. Then, the night after the museum's fête, Arthur takes a twenty-story plunge from the window of his Times Square office.
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Archie Goodwin's aunt Edna is about to lure him away from his work at Nero Wolfe's New York brownstone. After a phone call, he heads off to Ohio, where the president of Farmer's State Bank and Trust, an elderly widower, has died in an apparent suicide. While reconnecting with his aging mother--and fending off his nagging aunt--Archie tries to untangle a web of grudges, scandals, and murder.
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"Archie Goodwin goes undercover on the waterfront in a new mystery by the author who "does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy" ( Booklist ). Archie Goodwin is not overly fond of Theodore Horstmann, who takes care of the orchids on the rooftop of Nero Wolfe's West Thirty-Fifth Street brownstone. But as loyal assistant to the legendary private detective, Archie will put his animosity aside when the surly orchid-keeper stumbles through the front door...
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The Nero Wolfe cookbook
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