Curtains For Three

An entertaining trio of Nero Wolfe novellas. The first two take place in the worlds of opera and industrial design, showing that likely suspects and disagreeable people may be found in every profession, and the last one, "Disguise for Murder" features a murder perpetrated in Nero Wolfe's own office.......more

Questo libro contiene tre romanzi brevi con protagonista l'investigatore privato di New York Nero Wolfe, e sono in ordine: Non credo agli alibi (1948), Nella gola del morto (1949) e Mascherato per uccidere (1950). Come per Sherlock Holmes, a narrarci le indagini di Wolfe non sarà direttamente il pro......more

Three short but extremely fun mysteries. The third story is just plain but the other two are mostly enjoyable because of the interplay between the regular cast of characters.......more

One of the several in the series that is a trilogy of stories. The Gun with Wings A couple asks Wolfe to find out how a gun was moved. The wife and her now lover discovered the husband's body, which was deemed to be a suicide. But both know there was no gun next to the body, though it was there for th......more

The thing I like most about Rex Stout’s collections of novellas is that you can easily read each story in one sitting. No chance to forget a key detail. You digest the story as you go and hopefully come up with the villain before Nero Wolfe tells you who it is. Unfortunately for me, I didn’t guess t......more