num_pages: 199
description: When everyone who has read Leonard Dykes's unpublished manuscript--including the author himself--is found dead, Nero Wolfe, along with his sidekick, decides to set a trap. Reissue. NYT.
language: English
title: Murder by the Book
titlecomplete: Murder by the Book
characters: Phil Buratti, James Corrigan, Helen Troy, Nina Perlman, George Rowcliff, Baird Archer, Orrie Cather, Blanche Duke, Eleanor Gruber, Frederick Briggs, Deborah Abrams, Hulda Greenberg, Mabel Moore, Nathan Harris, Purley Stebbins, Mrs. Abrams, Rachel Abrams, Sue Dondero, Portia Liss, Leonard Dykes, Claire Buckhardt, Cynthia Free, Nancy Abrams, Theodore Horstmann, Saul Panzer, Joan Wellman, Gibson, Fritz Brenner, Fred Durkin, Archie Goodwin, John R. Wellman, Louis Kustin, Ferdinand Dolman, William Butterfield, Charlotte Adams, Dolly Harriton, Emmett Phelps, Inspector Cramer, Clarence O. Potter, Nero Wolfe, Conroy O’Malley
genres: 20th Century, Crime, Detective, Humor, Books About Books, Fiction, Audiobook, American, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 3693
places: New York City, New York
series: Nero Wolfe 
publisher: Bantam