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    <body><![CDATA[This particular adventure is actually two unrelated cases tied only by the presents of the Black Orchids. I must admit I enjoyed the mystery of the first story, Black Orchids a bit more then the second story, Cordially Invited to Meet Death. Though I did like Archie's commentary at the end of Cordia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46079838">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Scott and I are big fans of mystery movies and have watched many of the classic detective series (Poirot, Marple, Morse, Holmes, Campion, Allen, etc), some in all versions available.  Nero Wolfe was one we recently came across and we LOVED the A&amp;E adaptation.  I had never read a Rex Stout until this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78146256">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My second encounter with Rex Stout, and first with the indomitable Nero Wolfe. Infinitely preferable to the nondescript Tecumseh Fox, Wolfe dominates the pages of this book as he would, I suppose, dominate any room he deigned to enter with his &quot;seventh of a ton.&quot; A great mystery, with a de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40506347">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Consider me a new fan of Rex Stout and his so-famous-I-can't-believe-I've-never-read-one-before Nero Wolfe books. Just as charming and fun as I've heard. The charm is all in the cranky, corpulent Nero Wolfe, a detective who hates to leave his house and can't abide the use of contact as a verb. This ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48394554">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The promise of a chance to get his hands on a rare orchid, gets recluse detective Nero Wolfe to leave his house.<br/>Of course, someone gets murdered and he then has to juggle catching the killer and negotiating to get the black orchids.<br/>Another great Nero Wolfe mystery.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm working my way through the Nero Wolfe mysteries, but liked this one in particular.  A reliable fun/easy read.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show lures Nero Wolfe from his comfortable brownstone. But before the detective and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, can stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder puts a blight on the proceedings. The murderer to be weeded out is definitely not a garden-variety killer.  <br/><br/>Wolfe must also throw his considerable weight into another thorny case, this one involving a rich society widow bedeviled by poison-pen letters -- and a poisonous plot as black as Wolfe's orchids with roots even more twisted.<br/><br/>&quot;Like the orchids he so avidly cultivates, Nero Wolfe is one of mystery writing's most prized ornamentals.&quot; (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rex Stout's use of language is delightful.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great author. My dad turned me onto him. His Nero Wolfe books are my favorite, I love that Archie Goodwin character. Great literary last name :) Fast reads, a lot of fun. If you have a problem, go see Nero Wolfe. You'd better have lots of money, an interresting but potentially solveable case ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24205161">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually read this in less than 24 hours!  It was a great, easy read which is what I was looking for.  The language is a gas; the sexism is hysterically funny. (The books were written in the 1930s and definitely have that detective twang to them.)<br/><br/>Will be happy to read more Nero Wolfe b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63576813">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Two long Nero Wolfe novellas.  The title story--with Archie attending the flower show--is very good.  The other--involving a high society event planner and a chimp--is less successful.  But both are fun.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another suspense filled, fascinating tale.<br/>We listened to this one on tape to stay awake while driving. It worked!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun mystery set in Victorian England]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i adore the whole Nero Wolfe series. ]]></body>
    
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