The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout

The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout

There’s a large cast of suspects in the eleventh Nero Wolfe mystery with everyone seeming to have a bone to pick with the murder victim. To make things worse, there really are no clues (at least no clues that the reader could be expected to pick up upon) to identify the culprit. What there is is a missing recording cylinder which may or may not help to identify the miscreant.

 

So, in other words, it’s a typically impossible Nero Wolfe case, but what makes this mystery stand out above others is that Wolfe gets mortally offended twice—a dead person on his doorstep (so to speak) and a new Homicide Inspector who is determined to go after Wolfe with rubber hoses. It’s a fascinating case which brings Wolfe places I never expected him to go.