Re: RARA-AVIS: nero wolfe

From: Bob Toomey ( btoomey@javanet.com)
Date: 08 Mar 2000


Chris Bahn wrote:
>
> What's a good place to start reading Nero Wolfe? I always had the impression
> that his books were cozies in the Agatha Christia style, but it sounds like
> I was mistaken. If it's a Holmes/HB blend, that's just to my taste.

My two favorites are SOME BURIED CAESER and THE DOORBELL RANG.

And let me put in my two cents' worth for Archie Goodwin. He's no Mike Hammer, but he's no lily either. I'd say he's at least as hard as Lew Archer, and a hell of a lot less of a bleeding heart about it. And Wolfe's a pretty tough cookie himself -- watch him face down the FBI in THE DOORBELL RANG. Medium-boiled maybe, but Stout wasn't writing any damn cozies.

BobT

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