A Family Affair, Rex Stout
A Family Affair, Rex Stout
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A Family Affair

Author: Rex Stout

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 5 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2007

Synopsis

Nero Wolfe's last recorded case! Wolfe never works without a well-heeled client and a sizable fee, but when a bomb racks his brownstone, killing his favorite waiter from his favorite restaurant, the world's greatest gourmet takes it as a personal affront. What kind of unsavory killer commits murder within ten feet of a legendary detective? It's a question Wolfe will go to heroic lengths to answer. But even as he and Archie uncover an unappetizing brew of conspiracy and lies, the killer serves up a second helping of homicide and Wolfe is left to face a most unpalatable truth.

"It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."—New York Times Book Review

About The Author

Rex Stout (1886–1975) wrote dozens of short stories, novellas, and full-length mystery novels, most featuring his two indelible characters, the peerless detective Nero Wolfe and his handy sidekick, Archie Goodwin.Michael Prichard has played several thousand characters during his career. While he has been seen performing over a hundred of them in theater and film, SmartMoney magazine named him one of the Top Ten Golden Voices.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

This last Nero Wolfe is one of the best, a tribute to the professionalism and stamina of the eighty-seven year old man who wrote it. And, although I don't think Stout ever intended it as an official end to the series, it is a surprisingly moving and uncharacteristically melancholy work. A waiter from......more

Goodreads review by Sharon

This is the last novel Stout wrote. He wrote around seventy novels and short stories all starring Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. Stout died around six months after A Family Affair was published. Plot: Pierre, a waiter at the restaurant Rusterman's has come to Nero Wolfe's Brownstone at night. Pierre......more

Goodreads review by Heather

If you're at all inclined to read/listen to the Nero Wolfe mysteries, read A Family Affair last. For the most part, it doesn't really matter in which order you read them, but this one is most definitely the end, or at least will permanently alter your perception of a character who plays a key role i......more

Goodreads review by Pamela

2/13/2020. I know I just read this one a few months ago, but on rereading it, I am even more impressed at what a remarkably well-written piece of detective fiction it is. Rex Stout’s narrator, Archie Goodwin, has very straightforward and matter-of-fact voice, and yet somehow, into that forthright na......more

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