Before Midnight
by:
Rex Stout (author)
Robert Crais (author)
In this ingenious whodunit, a perfume company offers a million dollars for correctly identifying certain women in history who used cosmetics. When the advertising genius behind the campaign is murdered and the answers stolen, Nero Wolfe is called in to find both. Archie Goodwin tries bravely to...
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In this ingenious whodunit, a perfume company offers a million dollars for correctly identifying certain women in history who used cosmetics. When the advertising genius behind the campaign is murdered and the answers stolen, Nero Wolfe is called in to find both. Archie Goodwin tries bravely to keep Wolfe away from the irritating women involved and focused on the case. But with puzzling phone calls and conflicting instructions from the ad company, it's anybody's guess when — or even if — Wolfe will find the killer.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553763041 (0553763040)
Publish date: November 1st 1995
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Series: Nero Wolfe (#25)
These novels by Rex Stout, with Mr. Wolfe and Archie Goodwin at the brownstone on 35th Street in New York, are a real time capsule. They were all contemporary when they were written; but that was up to nearly 80 years ago, and Stout's eye for details is additionally amusing in retrospect. In the ...
I re-read (re-listened to actually) today and enjoyed it as much as I did in the past.Nero Wolfe books are in many ways very comforting to read: there is seldom any real violence, no sex, no political correctness,no bad language: just a fairly honest mystery whose setting is appropriate to the time ...
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