The Rubber Band/The Red Box

Nero Wolfe #3-4

by Rex Stout

A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction’s greatest detectives. Here, in Stout’s third and fourth complete Wolfe mysteries, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, solve two of their most baffling cases. The Rubber Band What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services, it becomes Nero Wolfe’s job to look deeper and find the connection. A forty-year-old pact, a five-thousand-mile search, and a million-dollar murder are all linked to an international scandal that could rebound on the great detective and his partner, Archie, with fatal abruptness. The Red BoxMurder by chocolate? That’s the premise Nero Wolfe must operate from when a beautiful woman is poisoned after indulging in a box of candy. It’s a case that the great detective—no stranger himself to overindulgence—is loath to take for a variety of reasons, including that it may require that he leave his comfortable brownstone. But he and Archie are compelled by a mystery that mixes high fashion and low motives…and a killer who may have made the deadliest mistake.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Cozy, Classics

490 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 24, 2009

About the author

Rex Todhunter Stout (1886–1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair).

The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I was a kid, I was a murder mystery junkie. I read some Rex Stout/Nero Wolfe short stories in Ellery Queen Magazine (which I used to subscibe to) but they didn't really do it for me. I was more into the Agatha Christie brit-crime than the American model. I picked this up at the library and now I realize I was totally too young to get it. There's a reason why certain authors/characters are considered classics in the genre and I get it now. Where to I start? Archie and Nero Wolfe are great characters. The puzzles/adventures are terrific--whodunits at the core, but full of twists and turns, honesty and subterfuge--immensely entertaining and satifsying. And the writing is terrific--how it manages to seem so straightforward and tongue in cheek at the same time is truly marvelous. Since there are almost 40 novels and I've now read 2, I'm so excited that there are so many more to read!

[Jan C · Rating 4 out of 5]

Third and fourth volumes in the Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin saga.

I liked both stories although they each tended to start out a little slow. But they catch you in the end.

I like milk but I have never seen so much drinking of milk as Archie seems to be doing, at least in The Red Box.

Archie is the wisecracker and Nero is just wise and never (almost) leaves the house.

On to Too Many Cooks as soon as I can find it.

[Jane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read The Rubber Band Jan 3-5, 2020
Stout hits his stride in the third book. Wolfe is more "fully formed" so to speak, if that's possible. The banter between Archie and Wolfe kicks up a few notches. The brownstone shines as its own character. All the puzzle pieces combine to create a compelling picture. The city, the dialogue, the plot, the time period, and the clarity and pace of the writing are all superb in this series, there's just one caveat.
Personally, I enjoyed this installment because Wolfe showed a human side and subsided his vitriol toward the female sex in general through his moderate tolerance and compassion for Clara Fox in the particular. It helps that she's a self-described adventuress, incredibly beautiful, and maintains a steely composure in challenging situations. Wolfe still calls her a fool, but he protects her, contrary to his impulses in every other novel in the series I've read so far. I still can't tell to what degree he's a misogynist and it's the only downside of this series for me. Will try a few more installments before I decide whether the sexism is a deal breaker for me, depending on the frequency and intensity with which it rears its ugly head in the next few novels.
The Red Box (Jan. 11-18)
Had a hard time getting into this one, but it picked up the pace eventually once the second murder was committed, in Nero Wolfe's office no less! As usual, lots of plot twists, hidden agendas, and surprising identities revealed in the last climactic scene, with Wolfe as conductor. The plot seems simple at first: a model is poisoned by a box of chocolates she swiped from the office during a fashion show. The intended victim is uncertain. A young man in the full throes of unrequited love for his ortho-cousin Helen (it's a thing, who knew?) presents the case to Wolfe with a plea to investigate, and extract Helen from the world of fashion and potential danger. Wolfe switches clients midway when Helen comes to him with her own concerns. As Archie quips "This case is just one client after another." Another unique feature is that Wolfe actually leaves the brownstone, in part because of Archie's subterfuge and a compelling letter from the illustrious orchid growers. This was never resolved, and I would have delighted in a postscript describing a new shipment of orchids given Wolfe's successfully resolving the case.
These mysteries are a fun escape, but limiting, because the reader and Archie are not privy to all the same info as Wolfe, and he doesn't share his conjectures until the denouement. I like to play detective right along with the lead so this makes for a bit of a frustrating read. Also less enamored and more annoyed with Wolfe's eccentricities most of the time. I've read seven books in the series and I still can't decide if I like them or not! This one is slightly less misogynistic at least, so that's promising, but Wolfe's certainly no suffragette. I have two more double books on the shelves, so will give those a go at some point in the future, but taking a break for now...

[hotsake (André Troesch) · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5
By the second and third books, Wolfe and Archie are fully formed and great fun. The secondary characters aren't fully developed yet but they are getting there.

[Terri Weitze · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nero Wolfe stories are great

I can usually figure out most mystery books but when it comes to the classics like Nero Wolfe, I may get a glimmer but there's always a surprise waiting at the end.

[Glenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly satisfactory

[Ari · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pair of Nero Wolfe books (both excellent.) The Red Box has a number of allusions to The Rubber Band, so they are a good pair to bundle together under one cover. They are also united by the fact that in both of them, Archie does quite a bit of bullying of Wolfe to take the case and move it forwards -- this is atypical for the series generally.

I was struck how snappy and clever Archie's dialogue and thoughts are. The surface view is that Wolfe does the thinking and Archie is just the hands, but this is clearly not right.

[Jordan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always like Nero Wolfe books. However, I miss how active Archie was in the other books! He takes almost a background role in these two, and you can tell even the character is upset about! Regardless, Nero Wolfe stories are always charming and engaging. Just lovely. 

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nero Wolfe leaves his house!

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ingenious plot twists and impenetrable puzzles fill these classic mysteries. Obsessed primarily with orchids and food, sedentary detective Nero Wolfe can occasionally be prevailed upon to take a case. Usually by his assistant Archie Goodwin, who keeps a closer eye on the bank accounts than Wolfe does, and who starts to get mighty twitchy when he sees the steady outflow isn't matched with a steady inflow. These two, with help from a secondary cast of Wolfe's household servants and odd-job men, return to solve two more murders. The Rubber Band starts as a robbery, $30 000 were stolen out of a desk drawer at the Seaboard Products Corporation and the only person who could have done it appears to be the cable clerk, Clara Fox. The president of the company, Anthony Perry, is quite fond of Clara and hires Nero to find the truth of the matter. Later that same day, Clara herself engages Nero to help her find George Rowley. Rowley and Clara's father, Gilbert Fox, were members of a gang called the Rubber Band back in the late 1800's. Rowley was due to be hanged after killing a man and, not thrilled by this prospect, revealed his secret identity as the son of a wealthy English something or other and promised Gilbert and a few other members of the Rubber Band half his fortune if they sprung him. They are broke and it's the wild west. They oblige. It proves difficult to get in touch with someone in hiding, however, and due to the tendency of someone involved in a crime wanting to keep their involvement a secret, unexpected deaths, and other life events Clara Fox only finds out about the money her father was owed years after his death. Gilbert wanted to leave his wife and daughter something, and see the rest of the gang get what they were promised. While most of the characters think the fact that Wolfe is working on two separate cases that both involve the same woman is nothing but a strange coincidence, Wolfe is more suspicious. Especially when the remaining Rubber Band members tagging along with Clara start turning up unexpectedly dead.

The Red Box opens with Wolfe harangued into doing the unthinkable: leaving his house. Llewellyn Frost wishes him to investigate the death by poisoning of Molly Lauck, a friend of his cousin Helen Frost who is definitely not someone he has a massive crush on. Molly died after eating a piece of candy out of a box of chocolates. All three of these people work in a busy, high fashion women's clothing store. No one knows who brought the box originally. Or where Molly found it. Was she the intended victim or not? Llewellyn is convinced Helen is in danger but can't persuade her to give up her modelling career. Helen is due to come in to a big ol' pile of cash in the immediate future, when the inheritance being held in trust for her by her uncle Duncan Frost, Llewellyn's father, passes to her control after she attains the age of majority. The case is complicated by the facts that while it seems reasonable that Helen would have been the intended victim, she most likely was not, and by Lew's abrupt about-face from demanding Wolfe investigate the murder to insisting that he not. Unfortunately for Molly's murderer, Wolfe will not be so easily put off. Unfortunately for everyone else, neither is the killer.

Both these books get content warnings for murders. There's some sexism, but it seemed pretty mild considering a publishing date in the late 1930's. There's no racism I picked up on, but there also don't appear to be any people of colour, probably again because the books were published in the 1930's and we all know other races weren't invented until the 1960's. And on that sarcastic note I'll end my review.

[Marybeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I only read The Red Box in this particular double edition because my library's app (Libby) took to eating my bookmarks and notes. Since I now take copious notes for a trivia spreadsheet, this became a major issue and I ended up having to borrow the ONLY copy available at any library in my state! Thankfully, this is the second time I've read it so at least I was able to enjoy the story, despite having to weight down the paperback book just to get a glimpse of the pages in their entirety.

Now that I've revisited this story, I have to say that I liked it a lot better. It's a bit disjointed and complex as far as how the story progresses and how the details are presented. But the resolution is satisfying and there are plenty of juicy details to savor. We get some great insights into the relationship between Archie and Wolfe in the way they talk about and interact with each other.

From Archie in chapter 2 (NOTE: Wolfe hates going out of his house just on general principles): [Driving from the house] to the address on 52nd Street, I handled the sedan so as to keep it as smooth as a dip's fingers. Except for one I couldn't resist; on Fifth Avenue near Forty-third there was an ideal little hole about two feet across where I suppose someone had been prospecting for the twenty-six dollars they paid the Indians, and I maneuvered to hit it square at a good clip. I glanced in the mirror for a glimpse of Wolfe in the back seat and saw he was looking bitter and infuriated.
I said, "Sorry, sir, they're tearing up the streets."
He didn't answer.

From Wolfe to a visitor in chapter 8: "This is Mr. Goodwin, my confidential assistant. Whatever opinion you have formed of me includes him of necessity. His discretion is the twin of his valor."

To Archie himself in chapter 17: "I trust your discretion, Archie, but sometimes I feel that I am trusting the discretion of an avalanche."

This is what draws me back to the writing of Rex Stout. There is so much to admire and enjoy that I don't think I'll ever get tired of re-reading the stories. I highly recommend them all because whether they're the best of the collection or not, there is always something to enjoy in each one.

[Clay · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection was downloaded from Amazon.com containing two of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels: The Rubber Band and The Red Box. This review will be generic for the most part and cover both books.

For me, it's not common to come across a series where each installment gets incrementally better. I have found such a series in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe. I thoroughly enjoyed Fer-de-Lance and each subsequent book has only gotten better than its predecessor. The Rubber Band and The Red Box are no exception. Both novels had intelligent plots and excellent pacing. Nothing seemed to drag and I was constantly yearning to get back into the pages of the books every time real life took me away from 1930s New York City. I can't imagine Mr. Stout can keep this up but so far each subsequent Nero Wolfe story has been superior to the previous. Surely, that will end at some point and I'm anxious to keep reading to discover when that might be.

There are two things I enjoy most about these books. The first being the complex relationship between Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. I get the feeling that neither one of them would be the men they are without the other. At the same time they each struggle to get along with each other because their personalities and passions are so drastically at odds. It is genuinely delightful to read their exchanges. The second thing I enjoy most is, hands down, Nero Wolfe's dialog. Mr. Stout has written him in such an interesting way that I hang on everything he says and find myself reading many of his monologues multiple times just to savor the music of his diction. He is truly a worthy addition to the role great American fictional characters.

5 stars for both The Rubber Band and The Red Box. They both delighted me beyond my expectations and finding any criticism would be difficult.

[Mark Lisac · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stout began his venerable Nero Wolfe series strongly, but I think in these third and fourth instalments some growth is visible. The Rubber Band features ingenious plotting. However, the back story behind the mystery sounds a lot like the sort of thing Conan Doyle would invent and the solution depends on a rather shaky device. Enjoyable but with questions.
The Red Box has Stout in full flight — more varied characters; another ingenious plot (notwithstanding the unlikely nature of some details); the trademark friction, alloyed with mutual respect, between Nero and Archie; life in affluent midtown Manhattan in the mid-1930s; Archie tricking Nero into actually travelling about 20 blocks away from the brownstone mansion on 35th Street; a multilayered story, and Archie slinging a few good wisecracks (e.g.: "He was the window-dummy type — high collar, clothes pressed very nice, and embalmed stiff and cold. The only thing you could tell from his eyes was that his self-esteem almost hurt him." This story may produce maximum sympathy for Inspector Cramer; he goes very far in acknowledging Wolfe's talents and trying to be co-operative but repeatedly gets refusal to co-operate and Goodwin's sauciness in return. Half the solution becomes fairly apparent about halfway through but Stout still managed to keep the suspense going to the end. The final act may cause raised eyebrows; Wolfe arranges a ploy whose dubious ethical base has Cramer commenting: "That's the farthest north, even for you."

[Lynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not at all a book I would normally choose, but my dad - who is rediscovering the detective fiction of his youth-- gave this to me. So of course I had to read it.
It took me quite a while to adjust to the 1930's style of writing/speaking. I could easily imagine this as a film, where the detectives talk in that fast, clipped style interspersed with frequent slang. Did they really talk like that then?? Will have to ask Dad. In any case, the writing style and slang terms took some getting used to.
In terms of the stories themselves, I much preferred the second story-- the Red Box--to the first, but perhaps that was in part just my adjustment. Stout does a terrific job in creating and sustaining the characters of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, as well as other minor characters and does so with droll humor. It is easy to get to like Archie, whose sarcastic tone makes this amusing reading. The mysteries themselves are fine, although the solutions are not especially shocking or difficult to predict. I have to say also that both of the stories I read are of very white, male-dominated worlds. I wonder if they all are.

[wally · Rating 3 out of 5]

finished 10th march 2024 good read three stars i liked it kindle library loaner stories #3-4 in the series and of course we have our hero...who is also a local pedophile who enjoyed corn-holing the neighborhood five-year-old children...not that has anything to do with the story...or wait now....that's not stout. we get that with the current crop of "writers" engaged in theorizing diaspora, adjudicating hybridity. i think stout has 70+ stories about this detective private nero wolfe. at no time does he feel the need to tell us about the sexual exploits and or characteristics of his characters...again, we get that with our "modern writers". and soon we'll have a whole bloody month to celebrate corn-holing and eating that lesbian stew. let us all swoon away to the ground and judge all who disagree with out dogma "haters". while simultaneously bull-whipping anyone who has the audacity "to judge" another. while clapping ourselves on the back for our open diversity. me...i'm going to blacken my face, identify as a black woman, and rant about white trash on opra. and the audience adores me.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout, even though they are a product of their time from a social and political perspective, and Wolfe (and maybe Stout?) is definitely no feminist. I rarely anticipate the solution to the mystery before Wolfe explains it, and I love the detail about the characters and the meals and the lower West Side of NYC setting. This book is special also because I got it a used book store called Daedalus, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Very cool bookstore! Cool enough to even have a little Rex Stout section in the top floor in the mystery neighborhood.
I have nothing specific to recommend the two stories in this volume, except to say that if you are a Nero Wolfe fan, they are great.

[Emilye · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s All About The Benjamins

Two novels about inheritance and stewardship.

In The Rubber Band, six people help a peer survive a death sentence, then, they’re scattered. No one knows everyone‘s real names, but they all signed the letter of obligation.

Was it real? The heirs hope to find out.

In The Red Box, Wolfe is pulled into a seemingly minor affair - a model died from eating poisoned chocolates.

Poison is such a spare, clean kill. An automatic distance between the killer and the victim, just malice afore thought. The effect is immediate - cyanide - but he delivery, so imaginative.

Getting to the heart of the matter, weaving through reserve, recollections and revelations, is no easy task. But Wolfe proves up to it.

[Greg Barnes · Rating 3 out of 5]

The third and fourth installments of Nero Wolfe’s escapades in solving crime reaches a high with The Rubber Band. Unfortunately, The Red Box was not as well written or engrossing. All in all, both stories were fun and entertaining. As usual, each is filled with zany quotes and observations on the human race.

I recommend The Rubber Band without hesitation. The plot was intricate and believable. The clues were nicely sprinkled throughout. The Red Box starts out choppy and rushed. The plot line pointed to the obvious killer, but concluded with information which was too hidden to be plausible.

For lovers of Stout and his band of in house sleuths the books will entertain.

[Eduardo Garcia-Gaspar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Muy entretenida lectura de dos de las novelas de detectives. Los clásicos y muy divertidos casos de quién-es-el-culpable, en los que el héroe ve cosas que otros no ven. Otro caso de tramas complejas con multitud de culpables potenciales y giros de historia que se enriquecen por la personalidad única de los personajes.
Especialmente Nero Wolfe, el voluminoso, cervecero, gourmet, sedentario, refinado y malhumorado detective y su asistente confidencial que es su opuesto. Muy recomendable y, lectura obligada para quienes han divertido personajes como Holmes y Poirot.

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another Nero Wole and Archie Goodwin masterpiece. I think I enjoy the dialogue between Archie and Nero the most. Each mystery, the well noted scenes, the characters, and the situations that evolve through these twostories, is well done and witty and keeps the reader involved in trying to out-think the detectives. I sure can't out guess Rex Stout and his wonderful characters. These are top of the line mysteries done with care and I have enjoyed them for years.

[Hobart · Rating 4 out of 5]

With the third installment of many series, you can see the author settling into the world he's creating and while there are hints of it, Stout's been pretty at home since Day 1--he just adjusts the furniture a bit in The Rubber Band.

I have a pretty good sense of history, but it consistently throws me when someone in an early 20th century novel makes a reference to something in their recent past (or, in this case, the past of their parents) which is straight out of a Western movie. I can look at the dates all I want, do all the subtraction necessary, and realize it's fitting, but I can't accept it. Doesn't matter how many times I try, I just can't. Which is a cryin' shame, cuz it makes it harder for me to get through the opening chapters of this novel than it should.

Regardless, this is a fun read. You've got Wolfe facing off with the District Attorney and Police Commissioner, Wolfe hiding a client from the police--also featuring the introduction of Lt. Rowcliffe, who will become a favorite punching bag of this dynamic duo, some interesting back and forth between Wolfe and clients/witnesses, a good revealing of the criminal to an assembled crowd in Wolfe's office, and best of all, a woman staying in Wolfe's home. Archie doesn't tell us yet how nervous this makes Fritz (that's a standard line that will come up later), but it is clearly a novelty.

The central client to this piece is Clara Fox, the aforementioned female guest. She's one of the top 5 female characters in the corpus. She has every male who spends ore than a few minutes with her eating out of her hand, and from what Stout tells us about her, she earns it. Often when you come across a character like that, I just don't get the appeal (naturally, an example escapes my mind), but Ms. Fox is an exception to that rule.

I'm finding it difficult to summarize the plot without a lot of spoilers, so I'll just quote the back of my bantam edition and leave it at that.

What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services, it becomes Nero Wolfe's job to look deeper and find the connection. A forty-year-old pact, a five-thousand-mile search, and a million-dollar murder are all linked to an international scandal [a fairly inaccurate and overly sensational conclusion to that has been removed:]


I didn't try to write down the quotable lines in this one, tho' there were plenty. There's really only one that matters. Clara Fox, the adventuress, sums up life in the brownstone so succinctly, so perfectly, that it's impossible to look at The Corpus without reflecting on it. You also have to admire someone who could go toe-to-toe with Archie with that quip on the end.

You know, Mr. Goodwin, this house represents the most insolent denial of female rights the mind of man has ever conceived. No woman in it from top to bottom, but the routine is faultless, the food is perfect, and the sweeping and dusting are impeccable. I have never been a housewife, but I can’t overlook this challenge. I’m going to marry Mr. Wolfe, and I know a girl that will be just the thing for you, and of course our friends will be in and out a good deal. This place needs some upsetting.

In The Red Box...
Thanks to a nice piece of trickery, Wolfe is dragged out of his office(!!!) to investigate a murder at a fashion show. A poisoned box of chocolate ended up in the wrong hands and stomach, cyanide in an almond candy, of course. Before he can figure out who's responsible, Wolfe first has to determine who the target was. And he has to move fast, because there's a whole lot of cyanide being tossed around and the bodies are going to start piling up.

I had a blast reading this one, I apparently hadn't picked this one up in ages, but I don't think I'll make that mistake again. Now, I'm having a hard time writing this one up because there's nothing remarkable about this one, unlike the previous installments--yes, the methodology is creative, the motivation is novel--but that's par for the course. There are no new features to the corpus (well, a minor one, but it's nothing unique to Stout), the regular cast of characters are pretty well set (had some good scenes with Saul and the gang). This is exactly what one is supposed to get out of a Wolfe novel.

This novel does introduce us to another feature common to Wolfe stories, 'tho Archie seems to make a bigger deal of it here than later--it must have worked well enough for Stout to decide to use it again and again. As Archie put it it

that case was just one damned client after another

The client that dragged Wolfe into the case ended up trying to fire him, and then eventually did; which was okay, because a richer client wanted in on it; but that wasn't the end of it. This did serve to move the plot along, and provide a few humorous moments, but that's about it.

There were several great lines--those that had me rolling or were particularly insightful, but as I looked them over, I realized they all need too much context (up to a page or two) to appreciate/understand, so you'll have to wait until tomorrow or so for some samples of Archie the wordsmith. A lot of good back and forth between Archie and Wolfe, Archie and the clients/witnesses/cops/basically everyone, Wolfe and Cramer, and so on.

[Mira A. Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nero Wolfe is always a pleasure and these two early novels are no exception. The main adjustment is getting used to Archie not yet having developed his photographic memory and Inspector Cramer actually lighting his cigars. The cleverness with which the titles are worked into the stories is also a joy.

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is so much fun to read some of these earlier books in the series. I can always see the characters in my mind as the descriptions are so vivid.
The Rubber Band was the better of the two for me because I had the culprit down to two and picked the wrong one! The Red Box was goid however for the number of characters and use if Wolfe's "leg" men, Saul, Orrin, etc.

[David C Ward · Rating 2 out of 5]

For The Red Box. Not very satisfactory. A family genealogy/inheritance case that devolves into a tiresome series of arguments (among the family, Wolfe and the family, Wolfe and the police, Goodwin with same, rinse, repeat) punctuated with murders. The red box is the MacGuffin and the ending is a bit of a trick.

[Mary Corso]

I guessed the 2nd conclusion!

Not all of the details, but enough to know who did it and why. I liked the red box better than the rubber band. The ending was like something Hercule Poirot would do more than Nero Wolfe.

[Susan Rothenberg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Two interesting mysteries with lots of twists and turns solved by Nero Wolfe, a very overweight genius, who tries never to leave his home, yet solves mysteries with the help of his assistant Archie Goodwin, and as Poirot would say, with his little gray cells.

[Jay Walsh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Two separate books in one paperback. Very interesting mysteries set in the 1930's.

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Classic Wolfe and Goodwin

[Patricia Clouatre · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best books ever

Just started reading this series and already feel like I live in Nero Wolfe's house. I kinda wish I did!!!

[Anjana · Rating 3 out of 5]

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