Murder in the Ball Park
A Nero Wolfe Mystery

Nero Wolfe is a legendary fictional private investigator created by Rex Stout. When Stout died, the series was continued by Robert Goldsborough. This is the 9th Nero Wolfe book by Goldsborough, and - like the rest of the series - can be read as a standalone. Nero Wolfe is an eccentric, obese private......more

As a great admirer of Robert Goldsborough and his Nero Wolfe pastiches, I truly wanted to like this story. But... its red herring is a suspect so obviously villainous that he must be innocent, and is. It drops in the key clue toward the start so clumsily that it gives the game away. (I tumbled it 40......more

I've never before read a Nero Wolfe mystery and now I find I have likely been missing something. From what I have read elsewhere, Goldsborough recreates Rex Stout's world of mid-century New York quite well. All I can say is that the style, the dialogue, the characters, the plot and the Christie-like......more

First, a word about the book cover. It is simply awful. It looks as if it took all of two full minutes to design with a complete absence of thought or creativity. This is in keeping with the rest of the Goldsborough-Nero Wolfe series reprints from Mysterious Press. They all look as if an unpaid inte......more

My favorite Nero Wolfe books (and I’ve read them all) are the ones set in the 1930s through 1950s. They were contemporary when written, but now it’s like read a historical, which is my favorite genre. In this title, Robert Goldsborough sets the story in 1949, when a murder takes place during a game......more