num_pages: 205
description: Faith Usher had a decidedly morbid personality. She talked about taking her life, and kept cyanide in her purse. So when she collapses and dies from a lethal champagne cocktail in the middle of a high society dinner party, everyone calls it suicide—including the police. But Archie was watching it all, and suspects it was murder. So does Nero Wolfe, especially after he's warned by four men against taking the case. For the world's most formidable detective it is a tantalizing puzzle involving an unlikely combination of philanthropy, deception, blackmail, and an unrepentant killer who just may have committed the perfect crime.Introduction by Lena Horne “It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”— The New York Times Book Review A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained—and puzzled—millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.
language: English
title: Champagne for One
titlecomplete: Champagne for One (Nero Wolfe, #31)
characters: Helen Yarmis, Lewis Hewitt, Lon Cohen, Cecil Cantham, Nero Wolfe, Abe, Paul Schuster, Fred Durkin, Fritz Brenner, Louise Robilotti, Beverly kent, Ms Fromm, Elaine Usher, Inspector Cramer, Theodore Horstmann, Mr Hackett, Faith Usher, Saul Panzer, George Rowcliff, Orrie Cather, Celia Cantham, Rose Tuttle, Edwin A. Vollmer, Blanche Irwin, Dora, Edwin Laidlaw, Bowen, Robert Robilotti, Purley Stebbins, Ethel Varr, Mr Johnsson, Mrs Robbins, Marjorie Bete, Mandelbaum, Mr. Skinner, Albert Grantham, Archie Goodwin, Byne Austin
genres: Audiobook, Cozy Mystery, Detective, New York, Historical Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 3375
places: New York City, New York
series: Nero Wolfe 
publisher: Crimeline