Not Quite Dead Enough

You get two Nero Novellas for the price of one in this. The stories were both written and take place during WWII. The first was Not Quite Dead Enough. This one is shocking in that Nero Wolfe goes on a diet in the hopes of joining up with the army and killing himself some Nazis. Major Archie Goodwin is c......more

This book yokes together two long WW II era novellas featuring Major Archie Goodwin, specialist in domestic counter-intelligence. In the first novella, "Not Quite Dead Enough," The U.S. government wants Wolfe to work with Archie on counter-intelligence too, but instead Wolfe is avoiding all brain wo......more

An other great Nero Wolf mystry.......more

Looking at the title, I didn't realize this pairs two novellas. And, frankly, I didn't read the description carefully or I might have realized it. They are perfectly paired. In the title story, we learn that Archie is a Major in the army and that Wolfe has decided to do some training in an effort to......more

Not Quite Good Enough. If you've never read a Nero Wolfe, do not start here. Go back to the library and find something else. Otherwise you will be so turned off you'll never read another, and that really would not do. I know Stout made a living by his pen at a time when everyone had to contribute to t......more