Wow, Jim, I was pondering that question in the back of my
mind, and by the weekend I might have come up with an answer
half as good.
Joy, who ought to find her copy of the currently apropos
Doorbell to read
JIM DOHERTY wrote to answer:
>> Here's a question - are Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe
books
>> hardboiled or
>> cozy?
>
> They're both. That's the genius of Stout's
novels.
> He merged the traditional "great detective" of
the
> Christie/Queen/Sayers tradition (Wolfe) with
the
> hard-boiled PI in the BLACK MASK style (Archie) in
a
> partnership that shouldn't have worked, but did
for
> more than 40 years.
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