"They're 'The Fifteen Masters.' These babies are famous. One of them cooks sausages that people fight duels over. They meet every five years on the home grounds of the oldest one of their number. Nero Wolfe is the guest of honor. They'll do a lot of cooking and eating and drinking, and tell each other a lot of l...
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"Two hit-and-run murders, two jealous husbands . . . Too many women.
Archie goes to work on Wall Street -- with five hundred and one lovely ladies -- while Wolfe engages a brilliant and ruthless murderer in a deadly battle of wits."
"It could have been an accident but ... Nero Wolfe knew that 500 and 1 beautiful women had a good reason for murdering the late Waldo Wilmot ...
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The incredibly brilliant Nero Wolfe, a sheer genius at detection, prefers gourmet food and prize-winning orchids to damsels in distress. But at the prodding of his confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, he opens his office door to three beautiful women who usher in three of the most intriguing cases of Wolfe's career. And with them comes a shoeshine, an ear of corn, a...
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The incredibly brilliant Nero Wolfe, a sheer genius at detection, prefers gourmet food and prize-winning orchids to damsels in distress. But at the prodding of his confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, he opens his office door to three beautiful women who usher in three of the most intriguing cases of Wolfe's career. And with them comes a shoeshine, an ear...
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"Could you sit in an office on West Thirty-fifth Street and determine who among six people put a poison pellet into a pillbox that rested on a nightclub table three days before? Or what a policeman was carrying inside a folded newspaper when he entered a barber shop on the other side of town some ten hours earlier-before he was murdered? Or what sight was witnessed by a gibbering monkey in an overheated apar...
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Omnibus edition of the three novels where Nero Wolfe encounters an arch nemesis: Arnold Zeck.
"In And Be a Villain, the first of these three full-length novels of the late 1940s, Nero Wolfe came up against his most fearsome opponent, a powerful mystery man of crime name Arnold Zeck. Almost certainly a blackmailer, Zeck also appeared to be ...
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Incredibly brilliant Nero Wolfe, love of prize orchids and fine food, is without peer in the sphere of solving crime. But even the great man can't prevent a cold-blooded killing. In the most bone-chilling cases of his career, Wolfe takes on three clients with one thing in common-they all end up dead. As his confidential assistant Archie Goodwin ducks bullets and dallies with dangerous ladies, Wolfe himself is marked for murder-and only his ow...
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Incredibly brilliant Nero Wolfe, love of prize orchids and fine food, is without peer in the sphere of solving crime. But even the great man can't prevent a cold-blooded killing. In the most bone-chilling cases of his career, Wolfe takes on three clients with one thing in common-they all end up dead. As his confidential assistant Archie Goodwin ducks bullets and dallies with dangerous ladies, Wolfe himself is marked for murder-and only ...
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Incredibly brilliant Nero Wolfe, lover of prize orchids and fine food, is without peer in the sphere of solving crime. But even the great man can't prevent a cold-blooded killing. In the most bone-chilling cases of his career, Wolfe takes on three clients with one thing in common-they all end up ...
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The only fantasy novel Rex Stout wrote, Under the Andes was originally published in 1914 in All-Story magazine. It was never reprinted until nearly ten years after Stout's death in 1975.
Introduction by John McAleer, who was responsible for obtaining a copy of the original story and getting it re-published.
Under the Andes is a 'lost race' story, in which some intrepid explorers venture into a cave which proves to contai...
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"In one room of the old mansion a heavily-veiled woman screamed hysterically that she knew who had murdered her husband, Noel Hawthorne. At the same moment on a floor below, another woman, identically dressed and veiled, quietly discussed the will of her late husband -- Nel Hawthorne -- ...
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