I discovered several bloggers going through the The Alphabet in Crime Fiction letter by letter, and thought it'd be fun to give it a try. This week they're featuring the letter "H." My selection is Rex Stout 's Homicide Trinity (Crime Line) . Originally published by Viking Press in 1962, it's a collection of three mysteries starring Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin: "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo,"...
Reading Woman, August Macke (1887-1914) Daily Thoughts 10/30/2009 I read some more of Sandman Slim during lunch. It is very entertaining. I am almost finished reading it. It might be a bit too dark for some people. It is also a bit profane so some people may not like it. The story is very good though and the writing is excellent for the type of story it tells. This morning, I did a display of mysteries...
How curious. Despite dire warnings that the once very popular Internet domain Yahoo GeoCities would go dark for good yesterday, all of the crime-fiction-oriented Web sites mentioned in my previous posting appear still to be in operation.In the meantime, however, Winnifred Louis, the creator of Merely a Genius ..., a site devoted to author Rex Stout and his fictional detectives, Nero Wolfe and
Been rereading all the Nero Wolfe mysteries (currently finishing Champagne For One). How fun and cozy is that brownstone universe. Wow. I have several nonfiction books on Wolfe and his creator Rex Stout. There have been some key points I have not been able to track down. Does anyone have any research [...]
Yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the first Nero Wolfe novel. Rex Stout’s Fer-de-Lance, in which he introduced that “Falstaff of detectives,” Montenegro-born Wolfe, and his more handsome and significantly more energetic associate, Archie Goodwin, was published by Farrar & Rinehart on October 24, 1934. It’s a complicated novel spinning out from the disappearance of...
In Stout Fellow: A Guide Through Nero Wolfe’s World , published in 2003, O E McBride lists 60 words Rex Stout uses that “fall outside the average vocabulary”. Readers of this e-magazine mostly have vocabularies that also fit this description and so will be easy with words such as egregious , fatuous , mendacity and sapient . However, few will ever have come across abditory , which...
• Just when I was feeling deprived of reading material (ha!), today’s mail brought the Fall 2009 issue of Mystery Scene magazine. In addition to Craig McDonald’s cover profile of James Ellroy (Blood’s a Rover), the contents include: a profile of James R. Benn, author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries (Evil for Evil); a fond retrospective on “75 Years of Rex Stout’s...
Every few years, it seems, some necessity demands removal of superfluous books from the shelves — or books that can be perceived as superfluous, if there are such things. When I was dealt a hand of aces and eights at The Sun in April, I had two cartons of books to remove from the premises. I can smuggle an occasional volume past Kathleen, but an additional bookcase would not escape her vigilant...
Nero Wolfe uses his considerable brainpower and Archie Goodwin provides the wisecracks and the muscle where necessary as the duo goes to work on an on-the-air murder in "And Be a Villain ," by Rex Stout. The full review can...
It's one woman with two names -- and while she deals in miniatures, she's sharing her big thoughts on Bouchercon with us today. Take it away Camille. Or Margaret. Elementary in Indianapolis By Camille Minichino/Margaret Grace Only about 2 months and I'll be in Indianapolis! There are so many attractions to be excited about. The famous Motorway. The impressive Monument. The Indianapolis Museum of Art,...
Over at Risky Regencies , Carolyn has posted a list of her favorite historical novels. She then invites the readers to leave a comment or make a blog post with our own lists. Add to the basic question the fact that she allows books which were not historical when written. And, clearly states that she (and therefore, by inference, WE) can make up the rules for the list. WHOA- do you have hours to read...
Last week I bought a copy of Megan Abbott's Bury Me Deep. Back w hen the title was announced, I immediately thought of Masur's book, which is a lot different from Abbott's, I'm sure. Masur was a lawyer who wanted to write a book that crossed the with of Rex Stout's books with the complicated legal stuff in Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason novels. Masur's first-person narrator is lawyer Scott Jordan,...
As I think I have made clear before, I am very much a fan of Rex Stout's marvelous Nero Wolfe novels and novellas. I don't think any other author has ever been so successful in combing the "man-of-action" genre with...
When A&E produced a series based on several Nero Wolfe books by Rex Stout a few years ago, one of the stories they chose was Too Many Clients. It’s a murder mystery about a deeply oversexed man (probably what we would call a sex addict these days) who is murdered in a hideously baroque, pornographic room he’s created secretly in a house in the slums for his many liaisons. What’s...
Alan Bradley, author of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie , only visited bookstores in two cities on this U.S. tour, Houston and Scottsdale, so fans were lucky enough to get to meet him at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore. Within a short time, Barbara Peters' interview with Alan Bradley will be posted on their website so everyone will have the chance to listen to him. It's only in hearing Alan Bradley...
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