To save his favorite newspaper, Wolfe steps into the crossfire of a tabloid war. 
Master sleuth Nero Wolfe’s small circle of friends is limited to his assistant, Archie Goodwin; his chef, Fritz; and Lon Cohen, the head man at the New York Gazette. Cohen knows more about the city’s power structure than any man in Manhattan, and for years he happily passed Wolfe information in return for the odd exclusive scoop. But now Cohen needs Wolfe’s help, for the Gazette is ailing and the vultures have begun to circle. Scottish newspaper magnate Ian MacLaren plans to gut the paper and turn it into a sex-filled conservative rag. Standing in his way is the company’s chief shareholder, Gazette heir Harriet Haverhill. But when the aged Ms. Haverhill dies in an apparent suicide, no one remains to resist the Scot’s advances except Wolfe. MacLaren may be fierce, but when the cause is just, Nero Wolfe knows how to play dirty, too.

Death on Deadline

Literature & Fiction

Goldsborough, Robert

Genre Fiction

Collins Crime

After the heir to a frozen-food fortune gets iced, Wolfe’s right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, becomes a suspect. When Lily Rowan doesn’t laugh at his jokes, Archie Goodwin knows something is wrong. Her niece Noreen has been running around with Sparky Linville, a club-hopping bad boy who is the terror of Manhattan nightlife. And the last time she went out with him, Noreen wasn’t herself when she came home. All she would tell her aunt was that she had been assaulted. Springing into action, Goodwin waits for Linville outside of Morgana’s, a chrome-and-glass palace that sits like a wart on Second Avenue. They nearly come to blows, but Linville’s bodyguard intervenes, and Goodwin retreats to plan his next move. In the morning Linville is dead, and Goodwin is the chief suspect. For years he has helped rotund genius Nero Wolfe out of jams, and now it is time for the master detective to return the favor.

The Last Coincidence - a Nero Wolfe Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

The Crime Club

An expert on Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe faithfully recreates the legendary, eccentric sleuth and his debonair assistant, Archie Goodwin, in a new mystery involving a series of threatening notes, sent to Milan Stevens, a world-famous conductor

Murder in E Minor: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

United States

Bantam]

Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, set out to solve the murder of a nasty newspaper magnate whose death has been labeled a suicide

Death on Deadline: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

When an ultra-conservative professor's death lands Archie Goodwin in jail, private detective Nero Wolfe's attempts to prove his partner's innocence reveal several Prescott University faculty members who seem pleased by irascible Hale Markham's demise

The Bloodied Ivy: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin return to investigate a case of murder when nasty playboy Sparky Linville targets Noreen James--Lily Rowan's niece--as his next playmate, an involvement that leads to scandal, family squabbles, and death

The Last Coincidence (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe)

World-renowned detective Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, investigate a case of industrial espionage that resulted in a brutal murder

Fade to Black

Nero Wolfe and sidekick Archie Goodwin tackle the powerful high-stakes world of mass-media evangelism as they try to protect one of America's most beloved preachers.

Silver Spire: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

Robert Goldsborough returns with his seventh stunning Nero Wolfe novel. Follow along into Wolfe's famed West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone, where the corpulent orchid-tending genius devours meals, books, and murderers with a passion - and where this time he gets the chance to send a writer's killer to the pen. Charles Childress, the author tapped to continue the beloved Sergeant Barnstable detective stories when the originator died, may not have been the most gifted writer in the world, but he did have his talents...Contentious, combative, and exceedingly vengeful, Childress had an unsurpassed way of making enemies. Which is why, when the police write off his death as suicide, his publisher, Horace Vinson, comes to Nero Wolfe. Vinson knows all too well that in the cutthroat world of publishing, the competition can be murder. Wolfe, however; is not so easily convinced...or distracted from his more genteel pursuits. After all, the evidence does conform to the official version of the killing: The gun found at the crime scene not only belonged to the victim but bore only his fingerprints. Perhaps Childress finally contrived a successful climax...as the author of his own death. But Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's ever-faithful friend and partner; points out that Vinson's fee would keep the big man in beer and bouillabaisse for some time to come. That is a reality Nero Wolfe can't refuse, and soon Archie is posing questions that turn up a whole cast of character assassins, including Childress's ex-editor and agent, his most scathing critic, and his icily beautiful, ambitious fiancee - each of whom would have taken great pleasure in writing the final chapter in the life of Charles Childress. And then, in a plot twist any auteur would envy, Archie gets wind of the involvement of a mysterious kissing cousin from Childress's past. Could this be a case of a small-town girl come to right an old wrong? It's a conundrum so novel even the reluctant Nero Wolfe can't resist...as extortion, deceit, and jealousy come together in a perfect potboiler of revenge - and murder.

The Missing Chapter

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Death on Deadline

The Last Coincidence - a Nero Wolfe Mystery

Death on Deadline

Murder in E Minor: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

Death on Deadline: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

The Bloodied Ivy: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

The Last Coincidence (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe)

Fade to Black

Silver Spire: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

The Missing Chapter