2012
First Published
4.60
Average Rating
33
Number of Pages
Over My Dead This mystery from one of Americas best-loved writers features one of the greatest fictional detectives of all timeNero Wolfe. An orchid-growing, gourmandizing, demanding genius, Wolfe solves this case with the able assistance of his legman, Archie Goodwin, who narrates with his usual wry humor. When a fencing student ends up skewered through the heart, a Balkan beauty claiming to be Wolfes daughter is accused of the crime. Wolfe and Archie thrust and parry into a tangle of identities and international intrigue. Is Wolfes long-lost daughter a hot-blooded mistress of murder? Prisoners All the young lady had to do was stay alive and shed inherit eight million dollars. When the cops find her strangled, Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfes wisecracking assistant, feels responsible for her death. He hires Wolfe to investigate. When two other women die the same way, both Archie and Wolfe know that its time to find the key to this mystery.
Avg Rating
4.60
Number of Ratings
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Author
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.
