Three for the Chair by Rex Stout

Three for the Chair by Rex Stout

Here are three more excellent novellas featuring Nero Wolfe. The best of the lot is the final one, Too Many Detectives, in which Wolfe and a large number of NYC detectives have been subpoenaed to testify about the practice of wiretapping when a client who tricked Wolfe into performing an illegal tap is murdered. The answer should have been obvious, but it wasn’t to me.

 

In the first story, A Window for Death, Wolfe takes the most insignificant element of a case—a carton of ice cream—and uses it to uncover a murderer.

 

And finally, in Immune to Murder, Wolfe’s culinary genius proves the key to unlocking the crime.

 

They are all great little stories.