Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough

Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough

Goldsborough takes a break from continuing the stories of Archie and Nero Wolfe to write a prequel novel about how the two met. In it, we meet a nineteen-year-old Archie Goodwin fresh to NYC and having trouble making ends meet during the Great Depression. He gets a job in a warehouse, gets shot at by two robbers, and kills them. This costs him his job and he ends up finding work with Del Bascom who appears several times in the course of Stout’s stories. Through Bascom Archie meets Wolfe and helps to solve a kidnapping. It’s a solid tale, but not one of the great Nero Wolfe stories.