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Fiction, Mystery, Private investigators, Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character)
From a cover blurb: As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president.
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Cool, resolved, plot-driven and unpretentious.
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“First sentence of the introduction: "Series are seldom read in order."; first sentence of the Fer-de-Lance story: "There was no reason why I shouldn't have been sent for the beer that day, for the last ends of the Fairmount National bank case had been gathered in the week before and there was nothing for me to do but errands, and Wolfe never hesitated about running me down to Murray Street for a can of shoe-polish if he happened to need one."”
Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas or short stories between 1934 and 1975.
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