Before Midnight, Rex Stout
Before Midnight, Rex Stout
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Before Midnight

Author: Rex Stout

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 5 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2007


Synopsis

The scent of murder is in the air at the great Pour Amour perfume contest, and the incomparable Nero Wolfe is intent on sniffing out the killer. The foul deed is committed during the contest’s final round. Only five riddles separate the contestants from the million-dollar cash prize when someone finds the sweet smell of success too intoxicating to leave to chance. Now the contest creator is dead and the answers stolen from his wallet, and it’s up to Wolfe to follow the trail of clues to a source disturbingly close to home.

Introduction by Robert Crais
 
“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.

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

A five hundred thousand dollar prize is being offered by "Pour Amor" perfume. All the reader has to do is find the five cosmetic-using women described in a series of five quatrains. But then the author of the five quatrains ends up dead, and a paper containing the solution is missing. Nero Wolfe is......more

Goodreads review by hotsake

While not one of the best in the series this was still an extremely entertaining and fun read.......more

Goodreads review by Sharon

As usual, it's not the mystery that is so compelling as it is the witty banter between Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin and, even funnier, are Goodwin's sarcastic thoughts read by us.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

This one kept me guessing the whole way through AND had some really neat twists.......more


Quotes

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