Murder by the Book
by:
Rex Stout (author)
David Handler (author)
Manhattan Police Inspector Cramer asks for Wolfe’s help in solving the suspicious death of a law office clerk who has been fished out of the Hudson River. His probable homicide-causing offense? Submitting a manuscript for publication! With the manuscript missing and the only two to read it dead,...
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Manhattan Police Inspector Cramer asks for Wolfe’s help in solving the suspicious death of a law office clerk who has been fished out of the Hudson River. His probable homicide-causing offense? Submitting a manuscript for publication! With the manuscript missing and the only two to read it dead, the only clues are a cryptic quotation from the Bible and a list of names in the dead man’s pocket.Wolfe baits his trap. When it springs shut, he finds that truth is stranger (and bloodier) than fiction.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553763119 (0553763113)
ASIN: 553763113
Publish date: September 1st 1995
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: Nero Wolfe (#19)
Again I have been drawn to read another who-dun-it with Archie as the chronicler for Nero Wolfe. Murder by the Book does not disappoint. All the old staff and the orchids are here with their individual eccentricities. This story about the murders of a book's writer and all the people who have ever r...
A slow but well done Wolfe, where the most tenuous of connections are threaded together till finally the culprit is uncovered.
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