Nero Wolfe Series by Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe #1
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 01 - Fer-de-Lance
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As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda -- whistling a seductive tune he hopes will catch a killer who's still got poison in his heart.From the Paperback edition.
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Nero Wolfe #2
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 02 - The League of Frightened Men
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Paul Chapin's college cronies never forgave themselves for the prank that crippled their friend. Yet with Harvard days behind them, they thought they were forgiven -- until a class reunion ends in a fatal fall. This league of frightened men seeks Nero Wolfe's help. But are Wolfe's brilliance and Archie's tenacity enough to outwit a most cunning killer?
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Nero Wolfe #3
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 03 - The Rubber Band
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What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services, it becomes Nero Wolfe's job to look deeper and find the connection. A forty-year-old pact, a five-thousand-mile search, and a million-dollar murder are all linked to an international scandal that could rebound on the great detective and his partner, Archie, with fatal abruptness.
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Nero Wolfe #4
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 04 - The Red Box
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A lovely woman is dead, and the fortunes of overextended theatrical producer Llewellyn Frost depend on solving the mystery of the red box: two pounds of candied fruits, nuts and creams, covered with chocolate -- and laced with potassium cyanide.When Nero Wolfe's suspicion falls on Frost's kissing cousin, Frost wants the detective to kill the sickly sweet case--before it kills him.
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Nero Wolfe #5
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 05 - Too Many Cooks
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The guest at a gathering of the greatest chefs in the world, Nero Wolfe must practice his own trade--sleuthing--when he discovers that a murderer is in their midst.
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Nero Wolfe #6
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 06 - Some Buried Caesar
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A prize bull, a restaurateur's tacky publicity stunt, a family feud (among the bull's owners), and the death of a family scion pit Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin against a special breed of killer.
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Nero Wolfe #7
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 07 - Over My Dead Body
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When a Balkan beauty gets in trouble over some missing diamonds, whom else can she turn to but the world-famous Nero Wolfe? Especially since she claims to be Wolfe's long lost daughter! The stakes are suddenly raised when a student at this woman's fencing school ends up dead after a pointed lesson. As Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, thrust and parry into a tangle of documents, identities and international intrigue, another student body turns up, expertly skewered through the heart. Is Wolfe's long lost daughter the black sheep of the family, a hot-blooded mistress of murder?From the Paperback edition.
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Nero Wolfe #8
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 08 - Where There's a Will
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Investigating the bizarre will of late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne--who left the bulk of his estate to his mistress and nearly nothing to his three sisters--astute sleuth Nero Wolfe stumbles upon a legacy of murder.
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Nero Wolfe #9
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 09 - Black Orchids
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Not much can get Wolfe to leave his comfortable brownstone, but the showing of a rare black orchid lures him to a flower show. Unfortunately, the much-anticipated event is soon overshadowed by a murder as daring as it is sudden. It's a case of weeding out a cunning killer who can turn up anywhere--and Wolfe must do it quickly. Because a second case awaits his urgent attention: a society widow on a mailing list of poison-pen letters leading to a plot as dark as any orchid Wolfe has ever encountered.
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Nero Wolfe #10
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 10 - Not Quite Dead Enough
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Called upon to investigate a sinister "accident" involving national security, Nero Wolfe must set the traps that will catch the pair of wily killers responsible.
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Nero Wolfe #11
Nero Wolfe #12
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 12 - Too Many Women
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Archie, Nero Wolfe's assistant, goes undercover to investigate a murder at a Wall Street firm, where he discovers a fringe benefit: hundreds of women work there. Everyone's alibi is air-tight, so Archie and Wolfe set a trap. Which woman will fall into it?
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Nero Wolfe #13
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 13 - And Be a Villain
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Radio talk show host Madeline Fraser's worst nightmare comes true when one of her on-air guests collapses at the mike after drinking a glass of the sponsor's beverage.From the Paperback edition.
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Nero Wolfe #14
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 14 - The Second Confession
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When a millionaire businessman hires the sedentary detective to snoop on his daughter's boyfriend, Wolfe finds himself caught in a labyrinthine case involving drugged drinks, murderous debutantes, and a gangland boss.
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Nero Wolfe #16
Nero Wolfe 16 - Even in the Best Families
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An old woman asks eccentric sleuth Nero Wolfe to uncover the mysterious source of her husband's money. When the case leads Wolfe to a confrontation with a racketeer, he resigns from the job and goes into hiding. His wise-guy assistant, Archie, must solve the case without help. Wolfe's career seems to have ended in disgrace. Or has it?
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Nero Wolfe #16
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 16 - In the Best Families
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Aging millionairess Mrs. Rackham asks Nero Wolfe to find out where her penniless husband has suddenly been obtaining mysteriously large sums of money, a request that leads to murder and to threats against the master detective himself.
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Nero Wolfe #17
Nero Wolfe #18
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 18 - Murder by the Book
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When everyone who has read Leonard Dykes's unpublished manuscript--including the author himself--is found dead, Nero Wolfe, along with his sidekick, decides to set a trap.
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Nero Wolfe #19
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 19 - Curtains for Three
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Three clever murderers challenge Nero Wolfe in cases involving lovers who want to make sure neither is a killer, a stable full of suspects in the search for a killer on horseback, and a murderer stalking Wolfe's brownstone.
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Nero Wolfe #20
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 20 - Prisoner's Base
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Hours after Priscilla Eads pleads with him to take her case, Nero Wolfe is shocked to find out that she was murdered, and soon he is investigating her fortune-hunting husband and greedy business associates.
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Nero Wolfe #21
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 21 - Triple Jeopardy
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Don't tempt Nero Wolfe to find the culprit. When foul play's the game, he always wins - and in these three crime puzzles, the stakes are high. First, there's little nourishment for the detective when someone drops a poison pellet into a vitamin addict's pillbox. Then, a murdered policeman leaves a clue folded in a newspaper, and Wolfe has to read the fine print to decipher his killer's identity. And what do you do when a chimp is the only witness to a crime? This is no time for monkeyshines from the world's most celebrated armchair detective.
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Nero Wolfe #22
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 22 - The Golden Spiders
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Trying to determine why his last two clients were ruthlessly murdered, Nero Wolfe wonders if the answer is linked to a young boy who turns up at his brownstone apartment and finds clues in a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and spider-shaped earrings.
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Nero Wolfe #23
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 23 - The Black Mountain
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Vowing to avenge the murder of his dear friend, Marko Vukcic, Nero Wolfe, along with his faithful partner, Archie Goodwin, journey to the hazardous mountains of Montenegro.
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Nero Wolfe #25
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 25 - Before Midnight
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Cheaters never prosper, but Nero Wolfe encounters one who kills trying. At the Pour Amour perfume riddle contest, a million dollars goes to the contestant who can answer five questions. Someone doesn't like the heat of competition, so he murders the contest founder and steals the answers to the riddles. Now Wolfe has to sniff down a trail of clues that leads disturbingly close to home.
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Nero Wolfe #26
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 26 - Might As Well Be Dead
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Eleven years after his own thoughtlessness sent his only son, Paul, away from home, Nebraska businessman James Herold calls upon Nero Wolfe to track down the young man so that he can make amends.
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Nero Wolfe #27
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 27 - Three Witnesses
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In three cases--a millionaire who writes his own death warrant, a dog who becomes a killer's worst enemy, and an answering service which refuses to talk about a murder--three witnesses hold the solution for detective Rex Stout.
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Nero Wolfe #28
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 28 - If Death Ever Slept
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With Nero Wolfe on the job, you'd think murderers would take caution. But even the master detective can't stop a killing, especially if it's an inside job -- right under the roof of his client, millionaire Otis Jarrell.What's more, it's Jarrell's own missing revolver that the killer uses. Wolfe must find the truth behind the scandals in Jarrell's ill-behaved family. One of its members sleeps the fitful sleep of the guilty, and Wolfe's getting dead-tired of murder.
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Nero Wolfe #29
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 29 - Three for the Chair
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One thing is certain to distract Nero Wolfe from his culinary and horticultural pursuits: murder. This time Wolfe and his able assistant, Archie Goodwin, are put in the hot seat when they are called upon to investigate three different murders.
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Nero Wolfe #30
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 30 - Champagne for One
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Faith Usher talked about taking her own life and even kept cyanide in her purse. So when she died from a lethal champagne cocktail in the middle of a high society dinner party, everyone called it suicide--including the police. But Nero Wolfe isn't convinced--and neither is Archie. Especially when Wolfe is warned by four men against taking the case. Deception, blackmail, and a killer who may have pulled off the perfect crime...it' s a challenge Nero Wolfe can't resist.
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Nero Wolfe #31
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 31 - And Four to Go
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Nero Wolfe must track down a killer who murders his victims only during holidays and who, so far, has left Wolfe with four puzzling cases to unravel.
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Nero Wolfe #32
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 32 - Plot It Yourself
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Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, are called in by a consortium of publishers and writers to investigate several cases of false plagiarism, but the probe soon becomes complicated by murder.
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Nero Wolfe #33
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 33 - Too Many Clients
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A bidding war for his services interrupts Nero Wolfe's attempts to solve the case of the businessman who died in his love nest--a case in which the police seem oddly uninterested.
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Nero Wolfe #35
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 35 - The Final Deduction
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When the seemingly safe return of an abducted millionaire ends in his murder in his own home, Nero Wolfe sends Archie Goodwin to do his usual legwork, while Wolfe uncovers corruption and greed among Manhattan's elite.
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Nero Wolfe #36
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 36 - Gambit
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A private club is the setting for murder when Paul Jerim, playing chess with twelve opponents, is poisoned. When her father is accused of the murder, beautiful Sally Blount calls on gourmet detective Nero Wolfe to find the real killer.
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Nero Wolfe #37
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 37 - Homicide Trinity
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Nero Wolfe attempts to find the killer who murdered his victim with Wolfe's own necktie, and he encounters a list of bizarre suspects, including a gun-toting wife and a cop-hating landlady.
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Nero Wolfe #38
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 38 - The Mother Hunt
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The Mother Hunt is the 18th novel by the Grandmaster of Mystery to be reissued in the Rex Stout Library. It's a matter of maternity that brings Lucy Valdon to the brownstone on West 35th, after a baby is left on her doorstep.
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Nero Wolfe #39
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 39 - A Right to Die
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When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears.Susan Brooke has everything going for her. Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one did.Susan came to New York to find love and fulfillment, and ended up dead on a tenement floor. The police say her black fiance did it, but Wolfe has other ideas. Before he's done, he'll prove that good intentions and bad deeds often go hand in hand and that the highest ideals can sometimes have the deadliest consequences.From the Paperback edition.
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Nero Wolfe #40
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 40 - The Doorbell Rang
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Hired to help society widow Rachel Bruner foil bothersome Feds, Nero Wolfe and his able assistant Archie get in over their heads with highly trained G-men who are adept at bugs, tails, and threats.
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Nero Wolfe #41
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 41 - Trio for Blunt Instruments
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If Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, would ever admit to an Achilles' heel-which they wouldn't-it would be a weakness for damsels in distress. In these three charming chillers the duo answer the call of helpless heroines with nothing to lose-except their lives. First a beautiful young Aphrodite comes to Nero looking for a hero-and the answer to the mystery of her father's death....Then an old flame of Archie's reignites with a plan that may corner him into a lifetime commitment-behind bars....And finally a detective's work is never done, as a hot tip leads the team into the sizzling center of a sexy scandal that could leave them cold-dead cold.
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Nero Wolfe #42
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 42 - Death of a Doxy
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When an old acquaintance and fellow P.I. is accused of murdering a kept woman, Nero Wolfe investigates and finds several suspects in a mystery blackmailer, a sexy lounge singer, and a cold-blooded lady-killer.
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Nero Wolfe #43
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 43 - The Father Hunt
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Hired to locate Amy Denovo's long-lost father, Nero Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, discover that the missing man has a deadly and dangerous secret to hide.
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Nero Wolfe #44
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 44 - Death of a Dude
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Sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, leave West Thirty-fifth Street for a Montana dude ranch to clear an innocent man of a murder charge.
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Nero Wolfe #45
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 45 - Please Pass the Guilt
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A Mets fan with a phony name and a millionaire client arrive just in time to provide a case for Nero Wolfe to pay the rent. The bizarre visitors are in a frenzy about a death trap explosion in the discreet whiskey drawer of a top TV executive. To crack this case of bombs and bourbon, the indolent genius and his energetic assistant must pick their way though corporate chicanery, vile ambition... and a healthy swig of murder.
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Nero Wolfe #46
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 46 - A Family Affair
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When a bomb kills his favorite waiter from his favorite restaurant, sedentary sleuth and gourmand Nero Wolfe is determined to go to any length to find the killer.
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Nero Wolfe #47
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 47 - Death Times Three
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Archie Goodwin has his hands full when three baffling murders make him the recipient of a poisonous lunch, the fall guy for a beautiful woman, and the target of the U.S. Federal Government.
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