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Not Quite Dead Enough (The Rex Stout Library: a Nero Wolfe Mystery)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Crimeline (1992-09-01)
ISBN: 0553261096
EAN: 9780553261097
Dewey Decimal #: 813.52
Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages
Release Date: 1992-09-01
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
involving national security, Nero Wolfe must set the traps that will catch the pair of wily killers responsible. Reissue. NYT.
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Customer Reviews
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One of the Weakest Nero Wolf Books
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-11-20
It is difficult for me to rate any Nero Wolf story less than excelent, but this one must be so rated. It seems to vary sharply from others in the series. This is especially true of the first story "Not Quite Dead Enough." Wolf seems close to delusional. Lily Rowan is not the same cool Lily, but some sort of frantic man-chasing vamp.
This book was probably quickly written by Stout who was busy at the time in promoting the war effort.
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Nero Wolfe goes to war
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-08-22
NOT QUITE DEAD ENOUGH takes place during World War II and Archie Goodwin is now Major Goodwin. He is requested to get Nero Wolfe to use his superior intellect to help his country. However, when Archie gets back to New York he finds that Wolfe and Fritz are in physical training so that Wolfe can go shoot Germans. Apparently he didn't shoot enough during the Great War.
In the first story Archie creates an elaborate scheme to get Wolfe to come to his senses and it backfires in a murder. There is an interesting plot twist at the end which demonstrates the genius of Wolfe, and of Stout.
I enjoyed this book and recommend it to any fan of Nero Wolfe.
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Oldie and Goodie
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-05-21
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
My father got me hooked on these books. They are extremely well written and just fun to read. Anyone who just wants a good mystery without all the sex and swearing will love these books.
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Averages out
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-02-20
"Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap" are the two novellas in this collection. The first is most interesting for the various machinations of the characters involved: Archie is trying to get Wolfe to give up his "training" and assist the army with his brain rather than his physical prowess (although the picture of Wolfe and Fritz exercising and eating salad is a memorable one.)and Lily Rowan is desperately trying to get army officer Archie back into her life( a departure from the more sophisticated relationship she and Archie have in later novels.)Both of these subplots work better than the rather slight mystery which is as little challenge to the reader as it is to Wolfe.
The second story is a bit more interesting. In the investigation of the murder of an army officer via hand grenade, Wolfe is confronted with a number of possibilities and a few characters who are not as they appear on the surface. Although it ends with the suicide of the murderer plot device that is used a bit too often in Stout's work, this one balances out the weaker first novella well.
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Wartime
Rating (3)
Date: 2006-11-08
Everything was different during World War II. Wolfe decided that he would trim down and shoot some Germans, but instead ended up working for General Carpenter and Military Intelligence.
Thus we have these stories. Many reviewers pan them; I actually think they add a lof of depth and character to the series as a whole.
I suppose the notion of a pink hand grenade (Booby Trap) sets a few people's teeth on edge. Well, if you want something top secret, it might as well be nonconventional, no?
These are good stories, well, written, and worth your attention. Michael Prichard does his usual great job in reading them, too.
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