Rex Stout
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An innocent young telegraph operator becomes a counterfeiter's target Once, the Lamartine Hotel was a quiet refuge for New York's stuffy fashionable set. But by the 1890s, fashion has moved uptown, and the lobby of the Lamartine has been overtaken by natty young sports, who pass their afternoons with billiards or shows of noisy derring-do. Their preferred damsel is Lila Williams, a delicate young telegraph operator whose shyness so charms them that...
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Aline Solini--a beautiful Russian adventuress who has abandoned her Russian husband and is now in search of greater conquests in Europe--arrives in Marisi, in the decadent days on the eve of World War I. She has been rescued by Richard Stetton, the wealthy playboy son of an American millionaire, who is on a trip to Europe to discover himself. Instead, the somewhat dim-witted Stetton falls into Aline's clutches, and she uses him and his money to win...
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Rex Stout - famous as the creator of the Nero Wolfe mysteries - published this early, golf-themed mystery in 1916. Featuring death on the links, this tale is full of golfing, red herrings, and a detective determined to run down the villain. A great read for Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe fans alike! Originally published as a 6-part serial in Golfers Magazine (July to December, 1916).
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Audio Partners
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[2006]
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6 CDs (ca. 8 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In all his years of detecting, Nero Wolfe has never encountered an investigation as damnably messy as this one. For what began as a clean case of larceny quickly sank into a quagmire of blackmail and broken promises, international scandal and cold-blooded murder. Now Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, must bridge eras and oceans to find the link between a Wild West lynching and a respected British peer. Only then can they save Wolfe's beautiful...
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 15
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Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p1995
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6 CDs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Audio Partners
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p1995
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5 CDs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Pour Amour perfume contest reeks of death when Louis Dahlmann is robbed of the riddles and then shot dead. The LBA ad firm wants the clever campaign to continue and hires Nero Wolfe to locate the pilfered paper. While Archie trails the scent of fragrant ladies, Wolfe tracks a murderer and detects something foul close to home.
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Audio Partners
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p2000
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7 CDs (8 hr., 22 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Not much will stir Nero Wolfe from his comfortable brownstone, but when the gourmand is invited by the greatest chefs in the world to a gathering of Les Quinze Mat?res, he will brave anything to dine at their table. Yet Wolfe finds himself embroiled in something sinister when a chef is fatally stabbed during a taste-testing contest. The plot thickens as the detective goes after a taste of vengeance-- and a ticket out of town."--Container.
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2003
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5 CDs (5 hrs. 24 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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BBC Audiobooks America
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[2009]
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6 sound discs (7 hr, 34 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Originally published in 1946, The Silent Speaker unfolds yet another mystery starring the vainglorious detective Nero Wolfe and his quick-thinking assistant Archie Goodwin. When Cheney Boone, the Director of the Bureau of Price Regulation, is murdered with a monkey wrench just minutes before he presents a speech at a National Industrial Association dinner, the Association hires Nero Wolfe to solve the troubling murder mystery.
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p1994
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5 CDs (6 hr., 23 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Investigating the bizarre will of late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne--who left the bulk of his estate to his mistress and nearly nothing to his three sisters--astute sleuth Nero Wolfe stumbles upon a legacy of murder.
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p1996
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5 CDs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Detective Nero Wolfe suspects that the death of Faith Usher, a woman who talked often of taking her life, was in fact murder, and he is more determined that ever to investigate after being warned by four men not to take the case.