num_pages: 246
description: It wasn't Leonard Dykes's writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy ending. Now four people are dead, including the unfortunate author himself, and the police think Nero Wolfe is the only man who can close the book on this novel killer. So the genius sleuth directs his sidekick to set a trap… and discovers that the truth is far stranger—and far bloodier—than fiction.
language: English
title: Murder by the Book
titlecomplete: Murder by the Book (Nero Wolfe, #19)
characters: Baird Archer, James Corrigan, Mabel Moore, Clarence O. Potter, Nero Wolfe, Joan Wellman, Ferdinand Dolman, Deborah Abrams, Claire Buckhardt, Nina Perlman, Fred Durkin, Louis Kustin, Fritz Brenner, William Butterfield, Inspector Cramer, Theodore Horstmann, Eleanor Gruber, Charlotte Adams, Saul Panzer, Helen Troy, George Rowcliff, Rachel Abrams, Orrie Cather, Leonard Dykes, Mrs. Abrams, Hulda Greenberg, John R. Wellman, Cynthia Free, Dolly Harriton, Purley Stebbins, Conroy O’Malley, Frederick Briggs, Nancy Abrams, Gibson, Portia Liss, Blanche Duke, Nathan Harris, Phil Buratti, Sue Dondero, Archie Goodwin, Emmett Phelps
genres: Audiobook, 20th Century, American, Humor, Detective, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Books About Books
ratings_count: 3692
places: New York City, New York
series: Nero Wolfe 
publisher: Bantam