The Broken Vase
By Rex Stout
1941
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3.75
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166
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The chatter during intermission at Carnegie Hall was abruptly hushed by a gun shot. Jan Tusar, the violin virtuoso who minutes before had been nervously performing, was now quite calm and quite dead by his own hand. Backstage, amid the barking police, glittering socialites, and devious companions of the deceased, was shrewd private investigator Tecumseh Fox. Fox, from the start, smelled a rat. The two eyewitnesses saw far too much. A second suicide noter vanished. The victim's prize Stradivarius was encased in mystery. And cryptic messages arrived from - of all people - the Nazis! Then Fox's strange case burst at the seams when a broken Ming vase became the missing piece to a bloody puzzle of deception, passion and murder.
Avg Rating
3.75
Number of Ratings
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Rex Stout
Author · 94 books
Rex Todhunter Stout (1886 – 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair). The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.
