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Before Midnight: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (Mystery Masters Series)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Mystery Masters (2004-09)
ISBN: 1572704128
EAN: 9781572704121
UPC: 601531541224
Dewey Decimal #: 813.52
Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
In this ingenious whodunit, a perfume company offers a million dollars for correctly identifying certain women in history who used cosmetics. When the advertising genius behind the campaign is murdered and the answers stolen, Nero Wolfe is called in to find both. Archie Goodwin tries bravely to keep Wolfe away from the irritating women involved and focused on the case. But with puzzling phone calls and conflicting instructions from the ad company, it's anybody's guess when — or even if — Wolfe will find the killer.
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Customer Reviews
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Another Winner
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-10-20
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I haven't found a Nero Wolfe mystery that I didn't love. You are totally lost in the story unfolding...
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Another Great Stout-Pritchard Collaboration
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-09-07
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
I've wondered whether Michael Pritchard and Rex Stout ever met.
He interprets Stout's work with such insight and feeling. In this book, Stout confronts another of the 1950s institutions: the advertising business and the "big contest" approach to promoting products.
An advertising firm runs a million-dollar contest to promote perfume. The finalists have been asked to determine which perfume-using historical figure is depicted in some rhymes. The writer of the rhymes teases the finalists by flashing the answers, and is later found dead.
It's historically interesting to note that, strictly speaking, Stout anticipated the quiz show scandals a few years after this story's time (1955). To learn more about this, get the wonderful DVD "Quiz Show," which deconstructs this era with great insight and empathy.
But man, that Michael Pritchard. I have some Nero Wolfes read by others, but Pritchard got it right for sure.
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Retail Price: $27.95
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