Archie Meets Nero Wolfe Archie Meets Nero Wolfe
Book 8 - The Nero Wolfe Mysteries

Archie Meets Nero Wolfe

A Prequel to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries

    • 4.4 • 144 Ratings
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Publisher Description

An “excellent” novel that goes back to 1920s New York to reveal how the famed detective first met his incomparable sidekick (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

In 1930, young Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks—with a pair of hot lead slugs.
 
Dismissed from his job for being “trigger-happy,” he parlays his newfound notoriety into a job as a detective’s assistant, helping honest sleuth Del Bascom solve cases like the Morningside Piano Heist, the Rive Gauche Art Gallery Swindle, and the Sumner-Hayes Burglary. But it’s the kidnapping of Tommie Williamson, the son of a New York hotel magnate, that introduces Goodwin to the man who will change his life.
 
Goodwin knows there’s only one detective who can help find Tommie: Nero Wolfe, the stout genius of West Thirty-Fifth Street. Together, they’ll form one of the most unlikely crime fighting duos in history—but first Goodwin must locate Tommie and prove that he deserves a place by Wolfe’s side.
 
In this witty story about the origin of a legendary partnership, Robert Goldsborough gloriously evokes the spirit of Nero Wolfe’s creator, bestselling author Rex Stout, and breathes new life into his beloved characters. 

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2012
November 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
234
Pages
PUBLISHER
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
3.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Dragonson ,

Only good NW story post Stout

This is a very good lead in to the Nero Wolfe mysteries, giving a believable and entertaining story to explain how Archie came to work for Nero. Unfortunately, it's the only enjoyable book by the post Stout author of NW mysteries. His other stories become increasingly political (socialist of all things) and defensive of obvious criticisms of his writing.

Me Edd ,

A young man searching.

An excellent prequel to the Nero Wolfe series. It explains a lot!!!

Didaktikos ,

Good read

Nice construction of Archie Goodwin’s first interaction with Nero Wolfe. Fits quite neatly with Stout’s presentation.

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