Murder by the Book

It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.The New York Times Book ReviewIntroduction by David Handler. It wasnt Leonard Dykess writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy ending. Now four people are dead including the unfortunate author himself and the police think Nero Wolfe is the only man who can close the book on this novel killer. So the genius sleuth directs his sidekick to set a trap . . . and discovers that the truth is far strangerand far bloodierthan fiction.. A grand master of the form Rex Stout is one of Americas greatest mystery writers and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together Stout and Wolfe have entertainedand puzzledmillions 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.