Murder in the Ball Park
Wolfe earns a big league call-up after a senator gets taken out at the ball gameArchie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. The national anthem is just winding down when Panzer spies a notable in...
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Wolfe earns a big league call-up after a senator gets taken out at the ball gameArchie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. The national anthem is just winding down when Panzer spies a notable in the box seats: state senator Orson Milbank, a silver-haired scoundrel with enemies in every corner of upstate New York. 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 by a sniper in the upper deck.Archie’s employer—the rotund genius Nero Wolfe—has no interest in investigating the stadium slaying, but Archie is swayed by the senator’s suspiciously lovely widow. Her husband was mired hip-deep in corruption, and sorting out who killed him will be a task far less pleasant than an afternoon at the ball park.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781480445659 (1480445657)
Publish date: January 28th 2014
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Pages no: 228
Edition language: English
Series: Nero Wolfe Novels by Robert Goldsborough (#9)
It was fun to spend some more time with my old pals Archie and Mr. Wolfe and that's probably what kept me going. In places the dialog didn't ring true, especially in the case of Saul Panzer, who seems to have been transformed here into another Archie. Still, as a man who ran out of new Rex Stout-pen...
Murder In The Ball Park is the 58th novel in the Nero Wolfe series and the ninth to be written by author Robert Goldsborough. Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are hired by the widow to look into the murder of a senator while at a baseball game. The prime suspect is a New York mobster but as Wolfe and...