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Black Orchids - A Nero Wolfe Novella (Nero Wolfe, #9)

Rex Stout,

Lawrence Block (Introduction)

Start date: March 10, 2018

Finish date: April 4, 2018

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Mar 06, 2011 Bev rated it really liked it

So, I finally found out how Nero Wolfe gained possession of the coveted black orchids. This had been alluded to in several of the Wolfe mysteries that I have read but I hadn't gotten my hands on a copy of Black Orchids (1941) until this past year.

Nero Wolfe sends Archie Goodwin to the flower show in downtown NYC. Not once, but every day for a whole week. Finally, Wolfe cannot stand it any longer and rather than hear Goodwin's reports on how they look he actually leaves his brownstone home to se ...more

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Aug 16, 2024 Katie rated it really liked it

Shelves: classic-mystery, fiction

Excellent novella. The Nero Wolfe stories are always enjoyable.

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Sep 23, 2019 ShanDizzy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

These two stories were a hoot despite the murders and made the 7-hour drive enjoyable. I really like the way Rex Stout has Archie describe things. For example, when Nero Wolfe finished eating dinner and was sitting in his chair in the office the description is 'he sat with his hands clasped over his sausage mausoleum.' There were many other witticisms and descriptions that made me chuckle. ...more

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