Champagne for One

Name: Champagne for One
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Author: Rex Stout
ISBN: 9781415938195

Author: Rex Stout

Series: Nero Wolfe #31

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 5 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 02/06/2007

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British, Private Investigators

Synopsis

There's nothing like murder to spoil a good meal. That's what Archie Goodwin, the able assistant to Nero Wolfe, discovers at a lavish dinner party hosted by a billionaire. It was a casual evening among gorgeous society girls . . . until champagne became a murder weapon.

Luckily for Archie, his boss knows champagne—and other gourmet fare. He also happens to be a genius at deduction. That combination could mean the last call for a killer who spiked the bubbly with cyanide.

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 on February 16, 2019

A young woman is poisoned during a dinner party held annually-- according the terms of the will of an eccentric benefactor--for the "graduates" of a home for unwed mothers. Archie--pinch-hitting as an escort for the the evening--is the only one convinced that the poisoning isn't suicide. Wolfe gets......more

Goodreads review by Ben on June 29, 2021

VACATION BOOK #9 (9 of 10 during 6/11-6/26 vacation) This was a n audiobook on the way home from Kansas City > Dallas. The challenge here i had two middle school girls in the truck complaining the whole way about an audiobook (I did warn them ahead of time to bring their headphones) Typical Rex Stout......more

Goodreads review by Mike on March 17, 2014

My father believed that, after the Nero Wolfe series, the world had no further need for new mystery novels. I tend to agree. I enjoy the contemporary mysteries by Michael Connelly, Elizabeth George, Patricia Cornwell, Louise Penny and many others, but then I go back to the Rex Stout books and realize......more

Goodreads review by hotsake on June 25, 2023

A solid if slightly unremarkable Nero Wolfe entry. The mystery is good and Archie and Wolfe are still but this story lacked a lot of the interplay between the main cast that I look forward to.......more

Goodreads review by Vicki on March 16, 2022

An acquaintance of Archie's asks him to fill in for him at a dinner given by the man's rich aunt for some unmarried mothers. One of them dies from poison and Archie is the only one who insists it was murder and not suicide, even though the young woman had often talked about killing herself and she w......more