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Serier: Nero Wolfe (9)

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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Nero Wolfe has left his comfortable brownstone for the promise of a remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show??but before Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, have a chance to stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder takes place right under their noses and puts a blight on the proceedings. Now Wolfe's fancy turns to thoughts of weeding out a murderer??one who's definitely not a garden-variety killer. Only then will Wolfe be ready to throw his weight into a second  thorny case, involving a rich society widow bedeviled by poison-pen letters??and a poisonous plot as black as Wolfe's orchids . . . with roots that are even more twisted.
Introduction by Lawrence Block
??It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.???The New York Times Book Review
 
A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America??s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained??and puzzled??millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable
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This isn't a novel but rather a pair of novellas. In the first story, Black Orchids, Archie is sent by the sedentary Wolfe to the Manhattan Flower Show to spy on an exhibition of extremely rare black orchids. Wolfe is miffed because the breeder refused to sell one to Wolfe. Along the way Archie falls in love with a pretty girl inhabiting one of the diorama-like scenes set up by a nursery, which leads him to be on the spot when a murder occurs. Wolfe manages to solve the murder and snag a black orchid plant all in one afternoon, which is pretty good.

The second novella, Cordially Invited to Meet Death finds Wolfe and Archie trying to solve the murder of a fancy party planner, who is deliberately dosed with tetanus. She had originally consulted Wolfe about some anonymous letters that were sent to some of her clients, so Wolfe is motivated to find her killer since he wasn't able to prevent her murder. The black orchids show up on the coffin at the funeral, which is framed by Archie as a mystery — why did Wolfe send one of his precious on someone he barely knew? That mystery isn't solved, but since I couldn't see the point of it other than to provide a tenuous thread between the two novellas, I'm not bothered by the dangling plot point.

This isn't one of my favorites, but it's fine. I probably wouldn't have re-read it without prompting but I'm not sorry to have done so. ( )
  rosalita | Oct 4, 2023 |
This is a twofer as it includes the title novella as well as a second novella, Cordially Invited to Meet Death. Black orchids form the connection between the two novellas. In the first story, Nero Wolfe sends Archie to visit a flower show on successive days. On the final day, Wolfe himself is present when Archie discovers a murdered man in one of the displays. In the second story, a party planner consults Wolfe regarding a series of poison pen letters. It soon turns into a murder investigation. While Archie does the leg work, Wolfe and Fritz receive instruction on the proper way to make corned beef hash…from a woman! The novella format works well for this series with Archie Goodwin as its narrator. Archie is quick-witted and quick-tongued, and the novella length seems like a natural fit. ( )
  cbl_tn | Jul 5, 2023 |
Another great Wolfe mystery ( )
  P-Rae | May 20, 2023 |
No es mucho lo que puede hacer que Wolfe deje su cómoda casa de piedra rojiza, pero la exhibición de una rara orquídea negra lo atrae a una exhibición de flores. Desafortunadamente, el evento tan esperado pronto se ve ensombrecido por un asesinato tan atrevido como repentino. Se trata de eliminar a un asesino astuto que puede aparecer en cualquier lugar, y Wolfe debe hacerlo rápidamente. Porque un segundo caso espera su atención urgente: una viuda de sociedad en una lista de correo de cartas envenenadas que conducen a un complot tan oscuro como cualquier orquídea que Wolfe haya encontrado.
  Natt90 | Nov 25, 2022 |
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  laplantelibrary | Apr 9, 2022 |
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I don't know how many guesses there have been in the past year; around bars and dinner tables, as to how Nero Wolfe got hold of the black orchids.
Monday at the Flower Show, Tuesday at the Flower Show, Wednesday at the Flower Show. ("Black Orchids")
That wasn't the first time I ever saw Bess Huddleston. ("Cordially Invited to Meet Death")
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I do not deny that flowers are pretty, but a million flowers are not a million times prettier than one flower. Oysters are good to eat, but who wants to eat a carload?
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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Nero Wolfe has left his comfortable brownstone for the promise of a remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show??but before Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, have a chance to stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder takes place right under their noses and puts a blight on the proceedings. Now Wolfe's fancy turns to thoughts of weeding out a murderer??one who's definitely not a garden-variety killer. Only then will Wolfe be ready to throw his weight into a second  thorny case, involving a rich society widow bedeviled by poison-pen letters??and a poisonous plot as black as Wolfe's orchids . . . with roots that are even more twisted.
Introduction by Lawrence Block
??It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.???The New York Times Book Review
 
A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America??s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained??and puzzled??millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable

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