Search Results for "Rex Stout": 13 results
Stout, Rex: (08) Where There's a Will: Yesterday, I took a round-trip train ride to New York City, and one can only do—actually, one can only carry—so much bar review material around the city. [1] For the same reason, I also didn't want to bring my...
Stout, Rex: (09) Black Orchids: I am full of contentment and generalized good-will today; it started yesterday with a lovely dinner, and continues because I currently have something like free time for the first time in, oh, weeks. It's not going to last, but...
Stout, Rex: (10) Not Quite Dead Enough: Found the only Nero Wolfe book I hadn't read before, Not Quite Dead Enough, in a used bookstore this week, so naturally I bought and read it. Unfortunately, it was more exciting for its timing than anything else. Both...
Stout, Rex: (13) And Be a Villain: For some reason, I'm curiously reluctant to pick up the sequel to Outlander; if I remember correctly, some particularly rotten things happen in it, so maybe that's why. Or maybe it's just the length. Anyway, instead I ended up...
Stout, Rex: (14) Trouble in Triplicate: I decided last week that I needed to be reading something that lent itself to small chunks, since during the time I was nominally re-reading Freedom & Necessity, I was really mostly flipping through old Discover magazines, because Freedom...
Stout, Rex: (15) The Second Confession: The Second Confession is the middle Zeck book (between And Be a Villain and In the Best Families. I don't think this is quite as good as the other two; besides Wolfe's orchid rooms getting shot up, there isn't...
Stout, Rex: (16) Three Doors to Death: So there I was, minding my own business, dutifully doing practice bar exam questions, when I come across this one: When Sandra graduated from high school, her elderly Aunt Mildred asked her to come and live with her in...
Stout, Rex: (17) In the Best Families: Today I read Rex Stout's In the Best Families because, well, it was sitting on the kitchen table when I sat down to eat breakfast. This is one of Stout's Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin books; Wolfe is a very fat, very...
Stout, Rex: (18) Curtains for Three: I left off my re-read of the Nero Wolfe short story collections back in 2002, with Three Doors to Death. I went back to the re-read a few night past, when I couldn't sleep and was downstairs where the...
Stout, Rex: (31) Champagne for One: In Rex Stout's Champagne for One, Archie Goodwin attends a party and is warned that one of the attendees is carrying poison and might kill herself. The woman dies shortly after, and though Archie couldn't prevent it, he can swear...
Stout, Rex: (36) Gambit: The very last Nero Wolfe book we didn't own, Gambit, arrived at the end of January as a present, and I read it shortly thereafter. This is the one that opens with Wolfe burning the third edition of Webster's...
Stout, Rex: (37) Homicide Trinity: Enough of this imitation Archie Goodwin; I want the real thing. So I got a couple of books out of Yale's library, including the collection Homicide Trinity (one of the more generically named ones). I grabbed this because it...
Stout, Rex: (46) A Family Affair: We found A Family Affair, the final Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin book by Rex Stout, in a used bookstore a few weeks ago; in honor of the purchase, I re-read it. (Only two Wolfe books left to find...