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    Plot it Yourself: Nero Wolfe, Book 32
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    Plot it Yourself: Nero Wolfe, Book 32

    Written by Rex Stout

    Narrated by Michael Prichard

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    Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, are called in by a consortium of publishers and writers to investigate several cases of false plagiarism, but the probe soon becomes complicated by murder.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 3, 2007
    ISBN9781415940945
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    Plot it Yourself: Nero Wolfe, Book 32
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    Rex Stout

    Rex Todhunter Stout (1886 – 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe and assistant Archie Goodwin. 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. Rex passed away in 1975.

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    • 5/5
      One of my favorites
    • 4/5
      Nero Wolfe is hired by a committee of authors and publishers who have been accused of plagiarism. Wolfe takes the case not now murders will follow. He also knows the one accusing the others of plagiarism is also the murderer but how to prove it and find the evidence.Not one of the best books in the Nero Wolfe series but it still held my interest. There is a large cast of characters as well as the regulars. I figured one of the people involved but did not see the ending that happened until they were all in Wolfe's office.
    • 4/5
      A fun episode in the Nero Wolfe series. I loved the tension between publisher and author and who has to take responsibility for plagiarism. I also loved when Wolfe went on a food strike because he made a mistake in the case. Of course, he redeemed himself in the end with a usual Stout plot twist.
    • 4/5
      A committee of authors and publishers hires Wolfe to deal with a series of claims of plagiarism against successful books (and in one case, a play). Wolfe quickly determines that all the stories which were supposedly plagiarized were written by one person, but that person was not one of the supposed plagiarism victims. One of these victims, an elderly pulp writer fallen on hard times, shows signs of remorse, but before he can confess, he is killed, and the case becomes a murder investigation.
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    • 4/5
      Nero Wolfe investigates a case involving claims of plagarism and, of course, soon afterwards murder occurs. Towards the end, Archie gives some Ellery Queen type statements which (just as in the Ellery Queen books) made me feel dumb. If you are unfamiliar with Ellery Queen, he generally says in the second to last chapter that the reader has all the clues now and should be as able as Queen himself to identify the murderer. While I don't seem to mind when Wolfe (or Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot) say something like that and I can't see their point, it does bother me when Archie says it!
    • 4/5
      Deliciously complex. Rex Stout doesn't give you many chances to figure out the murderer before the intrepid Archie and the corpulent Mr. Wolfe can in any book, but especially in this one you have to be left scratching your head a little as murder after murder takes place with few or no clues to work with. In the end the heroes have to lay a trap for a character whom they think knows the identity of the murderer; a clever twist and one that was probably more difficult to write than the typical set-out-the-clues-and-explain-it-all-at-the-end like you would get with Hercule Poirot. But Stout is appealing to fans of the English mystery genre, I think - the characters never hit the bloody lows you'd find in a Dashiell Hammett novel, but instead combine action with intellectual work to neatly wrap up each mystery. This book is a lovely example.

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