Stop the Presses! by Robert Goldsborough My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Goldsborough Nero Wolfe books are a little controversial among serious Wolfe fans. I would never claim that they match up to Stout’s work, but I have derived … Continue reading
The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe: Parodies and Pastiches Featuring the Great Detective of West 35th Street by Josh Pachter My rating: 4 of 5 stars I quite enjoyed this book as a long time fan of Nero Wolfe. I read … Continue reading
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I: 1881 to 1889 by David Marcum My rating: 4 of 5 stars This series of Sherlock Holmes pastiches is quite good for the fan. It is not quite up to … Continue reading
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the second of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, and it is not quite as good as the first one. It is quite easy to go … Continue reading
The Doorbell Rang by Rex Stout My rating: 5 of 5 stars Rex Stout created two of the great characters in the genre of mystery, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. Nero Wolfe is fat (one-seventh of a ton!), mostly immovable, … Continue reading
Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel to Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries by Robert Goldsborough My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Robert Goldsborough books continuing the Nero Wolfe stories of Rex Stout are undoubtedly controversial among fans of Wolfe, … Continue reading
The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes by Ellery Queen My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a classic collection of stories written by a variety of authors in the early part of the twentieth century. Some of the authors are … Continue reading
The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the second in the Nero Wolfe series, and the characters come into a little better focus than in the first. The basic plot revolves … Continue reading
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is where it all started, the very first of the Nero Wolfe novels (referred to as The Corpus by dedicated fans). Most of the characters we come to know … Continue reading
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is one of the best “first novels” around, and introduces an unforgettable character, Lord Peter Wimsey. The mysteries he gets involved in have become classics of the … Continue reading
