The Black Mountain
1954 • 218 pages

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When Marko Vukcic, one of Nero Wolfe's closest friends, is gunned down in cold blood, the great detective takes it personally, pledging to do everything in his considerable power to bring the killer to justice. But Wolfe's reckless vow draws him to the most lethal case of his career, propelling the portly P.I. and his faithful factotum, Archie Goodwin, four thousand miles across the ocean to the hazardous mountains of Montenegro. Communist cutthroats and Albanian thugs have already disposed of Wolfe's friend and Wolfe's adoptive daughter . . . now they're targeting the world-famous detective himself. Introduction by Max Allan Collins “It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained—and puzzled—millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.

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42 primary books

#24 in Nero Wolfe

Nero Wolfe is a 42-book series with 43 primary works first released in 1934 with contributions by Rex Stout.

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Fer-de-Lance
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The League of Frightened Men
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The Rubber Band
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Too many cooks
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Some Buried Caesar/The Golden Spiders

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#6 in Jännityksen mestarit

Jännityksen mestarit is a 1-book series first released in 1954 with contributions by Rex Stout.

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The Black Mountain

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One of the best Nero Wolfe Stories I have read yet. Very Different in tone, but fascinating.

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