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Collects three Nero Wolfe novellas: Bitter End, in which Wolfe is determined to catch the culprit who added bitter quinine to his liver pate ; Frame-Up for Murder, in which Wolfe hears a murder occur over the telephone ; and Assault on a Brownstone, in which Wolfe's home is invaded by Treasury officials.
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If this book were being released today, I could easily see it being titled “Wolfe's B-sides and Remixes.” And then Stout would burst into flames.
We've got a story that was originally a novel for one of Stout's other characters, boiled down and tweaked to be a Wolfe mystery. Which felt pretty fresh, I've gotta say, pretty satisfying work.
Another was a different version of a story I read for the first time this year, and while I liked this version, the one that Stout went with originally is far better.
And then the rarity, the story that was almost impossible to find before this edition was published was truly worth the effort.
All in all, a great coda to his body of work.
Series
44 primary booksNero Wolfe is a 43-book series with 43 primary works first released in 1934 with contributions by Rex Stout and Fernanda Pinto Rodrigues.