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review 2020-01-31 21:56
PLOT IT YOURSELF by Rex Stout
Plot it Yourself - Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe is hired by a committee of authors and publishers who have been accused of plagiarism.  Wolfe takes the case not now murders will follow.  He also knows the one accusing the others of plagiarism is also the murderer but how to prove it and find the evidence.
 
Not one of the best books in the Nero Wolfe series but it still held my interest.  There is a large cast of characters as well as the regulars.  I figured one of the people involved but did not see the ending that happened until they were all in Wolfe's office. 
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text 2019-09-29 22:01
Halloween Bingo 2019: First Extra Square
And Be a Villain - Rex Stout,Michael Pritchard

 

As I said elsewhere, I've decided to read books for a few extra bingo squares now that I've finished those on my own card.  First one up: Rex Stout's And Be a Villain for Square 13 -- as it's the 13th book of the Nero Wolfe series.

 

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text 2018-09-12 22:00
Halloween Bingo 2018 #1
Where There's a Will - Rex Stout,Dean Koontz

Murder Most Foul: Where There's a Will, by Rex Stout.

 

Can anyone explain to me how to make it post a picture of the bingo card, because I can't figure it out?  ETA: Solved!  Thanks, Themis-Athena.

 

 

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review 2018-09-12 21:56
Where There's a Will
Where There's a Will - Rex Stout,Dean Koontz

Where there's a will, and also Nero Wolfe, odds are there is also a body or two.

 

It's 1938, and Nero Wolfe is short on money, so he takes a case he'd rather not: three sisters who want him to investigate the writing of a will.  Their late brother promised his sisters a million dollars each, a million to a university, and the residue to his widow.  Instead he left most of it to his mistress.  (The sisters each received a piece of fruit.)  The widow is planning to contest it.  To make everything more complicated, one sister is married to the Secretary of State.

 

Unfortunately, I couldn't like this one as much as many others in the series, as so many of the characters (excluding the residents of the brownstone) are unlikable liars.

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review 2018-01-05 21:01
Śmiercionośny rękopis
Śmiercionośny rękopis - Rex Todhunter Stout

Rex Stout to klasyczny amerykański pisarz, który ponad pół wieku temu wsławił się serią powieści detektywistycznych. Ich głównym bohaterem uczynił szefa agencji detektywistycznej, ważącego ponad 140 kg Nero Wolfe'a i jego współpracownika Archiego Goodwina. Mamy śmierć pracownika kancelarii adwokackiej. Okazuję się po pewnym czasie, że związany jest z nią zgon korektorki w wydawnictwie, a także śmierć pewnej kopistki. Wszystkie te przypadki wyglądają na samobójstwa lub wypadek, jednak Wolfie podejrzewa, że były to brutalne morderstwa związane z pewnym rękopisem.

Dla mnie książka to nic szczególnego...może pół wieku temu inaczej bym na nią spojrzała. Intryga nawet dobrze pomyślana, ale akcja wlekła się jak flaki z olejem. Trochę się przy niej wynudziłam. 

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