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'Death of An Art Collector' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'Death of An Art Collector' Book Review By Ron Fortier

DEATH OF AN ART COLLECTOR A Nero Wolfe Mystery By Robert Goldsborough Mysterious Press 221 pgs

We’ve made no secret that we greatly enjoy Robert Goldsborough’s new Nero Wolfe mysteries. He handles all the familiar trappings from the rotund detective’s love of Remmers beer and his thousand of orchids to his witty battering with his dapper legman, Archie Goodwin perfectly. In this outing, Wolfe is faced with one of his most challenging puzzles. Noted art collector, Arthur Wordell, a rough-hewn character, enjoys sitting on the narrow windowsill of his office located on the twentieth floor. He tells one and all he enjoys the view of downtown from that perch. Of course, when his body is found splattered over the sidewalk one morning, the police, and many others, assume Wordell’s luck ran out and he slipped and fell to his death. Or maybe he committed suicide to end it all.

Whereas his daughter Nadia believes the irascible Wordell was pushed and thus hires Nero Wolfe to find her father’s killer. At this point we are on familiar ground as Archie begins inviting those closest to Wordell to visit their brownstone abode and meet with his boss. One by one, Wolfe confronts the suspects and Goldsborough shines making the repetitive narrative lively with his talent for capturing a character’s personality in very few words. Ultimately all suspects have been met and interviewed and it is time for Wolfe to reveal the killer.

But can he? We have no intention of spoiling what is easily one of the most original climaxes in any Wolfe book ever. What we will say is, like Archie and Wolfe, we never saw it coming. That alone makes “Death of an Art Collector” one of the most memorable cases in the series to date and one you will not want to miss.

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STOPPED THE PRESSES By Robert Goldsborough I have read books on Nero Wolf most of my life, many of them several times. I have been reading a few written by the current author which I believe have caught the essence of the characters.

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ARCHIE IN THE CROSSHAIRS By Robert Goldsborough

ARCHIE IN THE CROSSHAIRS By Robert Goldsborough

Archie returning home one evening was just opening the door to the brown

house when 2 shots rang out near him. He dropped down and shaken he goes inside. The next Nero receives a phone call stating Archie is being target for death. Nero locks down the brownstone and invites Saul and Fred to dinner. Archie gets a called from Cordelia Hutchinson, a heiress that she being blackmailed and wants Wolf…

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Lee Horsley and William Conrad on the short lived tv show Nero Wolf (1981)

[theinsectworld]

It was one of those rooms that call for expert dodging to get anywhere. God knows why the piano bench was smack in the main traffic lane, and why there was a piano bench at all, since there was no piano. Anyway it was handy for my hat and coat. She crossed to a couch and invited me to sit, and since there was no chair nearby I perched on the couch too, twisting around to face her.

"I really had forgotten," she said apologetically. "My mind must have been soaring around." She waved a hand to show how a mind soars. -- Might As Well Be Dead (1956), by Rex Stout

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It's that blonde thing again.