Review: Not A Typical Nero Wolfe Entry
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 30, 2014
The regulars do not appear -- chef Fritz Brenner and some-time operative Fred Durkin are only briefly mentioned -- and we don't see regular props like the red leather chair. Wolfe is outraged when his pate is adulterated or he would not have become involved with the investigation when the purveyor has his throat cut. Mr. Stout provides us with all the clues to figure out who wielded the knife. A nice, serviceable mystery.However. The text needs serious editing. New paragraphs are started where they don't belong and punctuation is missing. A conversation between two characters will be all in one paragraph so you have to figure out for yourself which one is speaking.Where Wolfe is asking a suspect a series of questions, there is no answer to one of them. The worst error is where Wolfe asks Cramer to remove two suspects so that he may speak privately to Archie and Cramer and then Wolfe goes on interviewing the suspects.  ? ? ?