Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries

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Winner of the Lovey Award for Best Historical Novel: This award-winning mystery reveals how Archie Goodwin joined forces with famed private detective Nero Wolfe and launched a literary legend. In 1930, young Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks with a pair of hot lead slugs. Dismissed from his job for being trigger-happy, he parlays his newfound notoriety into a job as a detective s assistant, helping honest sleuth Del Bascom solve cases like the Morningside Piano Heist, the Rive Gauche Art Gallery Swindle, and the Sumner-Hayes Burglary. But it s the kidnapping of Tommie Williamson, the son of a New York hotel magnate, that introduces Goodwin to the man who will change his life. Goodwin knows there s only one detective who can help find Tommie: Nero Wolfe, the stout genius of West Thirty-Fifth Street. Together, they ll form one of the most unlikely crime fighting duos in history but first Goodwin must locate Tommie and prove that he deserves a place by Wolfe s side. In this witty story about the origin of a legendary partnership, Robert Goldsborough gloriously evokes the spirit of Nero Wolfe s creator, bestselling author Rex Stout, and breathes new life into his beloved characters. "

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Archie and Nero Wolfe fans rejoice! Robert Goldsborough, who so deftly and ably continued the Wolfe series a few years back, has returned to tell the story every fan wanted to hear: the origin of the Wolfe/Goodwin partnership.This book has a hardboiled sheen worthy of the period it recreates and captures Stouts recurring charactersnot just Archie and Wolfewith a fidelity that is damn near supernatural.And Archies voice and Wolfes grand demeanor are spot on. Heres hoping Goldsborough finds a dozen more untold cases as he channels the great Rex Stout. Max Allan Collins, author of Bye Bye, BabyDevotees of the late Rex Stouts bestsellers will be pleasantly surprised. Publishers WeeklyRobert Goldsborough brings Nero Wolfe, late of Rex Stout, gloriously back to life. Chicago Mr. Goldsborough has all of the late writers stylistic mannerisms down pat. The New York Times

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Robert Goldsborough is an American author best known for continuing Rex Stouts famous Nero Wolfe series. Born in Chicago, he attended Northwestern University and upon graduation went to work for the Associated Press, beginning a lifelong career in journalism that would include long periods at the Chicago Tribune and Advertising Age. While at the Tribune, Goldsborough began writing mysteries in the voice of Rex Stout, the creator of iconic sleuths Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. Goldsboroughs first novel starring Wolfe, Murder in E Minor (1986), was met with acclaim from both critics and devoted fans, winning a Nero Award from the Wolfe Pack. Archie Goes Home is the fifteenth book in the series.