The Golden Spiders - Hardcover

Stout,Rex

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ISBN 10: 9997525094 ISBN 13: 9789997525093

Publisher: Vikiing, 1953

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Nero Wolfe was almost as famous for his wealthy clients and extravagant fees as for his genius at detection. So why has he accepted a case for $4.30? And why have the last two people to hire him been ruthlessly murdered? Wolfe suspects the answers may lie in the story of a twelve-year-old boy who turns up at the door of his West Thirty-fifth Street Brownstone. In short order, Wolfe finds himself confronted by one of his most perplexing and pressing cases, involving a curious set of earrings shaped like spiders dipped in gold. The case is all boiling down to a strange taste of greed-and a grumpy gourmand's unappeasable appetite for truth.(

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About the Author:

Rex Stout (1886–1975) wrote dozens of short stories, novellas, and full-length mystery novels, most featuring his two indelible characters, the peerless detective Nero Wolfe and his handy sidekick, Archie Goodwin.

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Rex Stout's famed lazy and overweight sleuth, Nero Wolfe, isbrought to life by reader Michael Prichard, whose voice is a nicematch. It's a "fat voice," if you will, rich, slow, deep,precise. Since the other character's aren't overweight and lazy, he'snot as good with them. He doesn't present a lot of characterdelineation, even when he's portraying women. But anyone who likes theNero Wolfe series will like this effort. The story concerns a coupleof people who come to Wolfe for help and are then murdered, which isan effrontery from Wolfe's point of view. D.W. � AudioFile 2002,Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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