The Golden Spiders (A Nero Wolfe Mystery Book 22)

Name: The Golden Spiders (A Nero Wolfe Mystery Book 22)
Price: 4.99 USD
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Rating: 4.5 (1522 reviews)
Author: Rex Stout

by Rex Stout

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4.5 (1,522)

4.5 stars from 1,522 reviews. Top 85% of Mystery Thriller books we track.

192 pages~3.2 hr readPublished by FontanaPublished 1953-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You love classic detective fiction where the puzzle matters as much as the solution, and you appreciate a detective who's brilliantly lazy but morally sharp.
You enjoy banter between mismatched partners (Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have the chemistry of a perfectly aged buddy cop film in prose form).
You're looking for a tightly plotted mystery from the golden age of whodunits, written with wit and restraint rather than modern melodrama.

Maybe not for you if...

You need fast-paced action or violence on the page; Wolfe solves crimes through conversation, logic, and occasionally sitting in his office whilst Archie does the legwork.
You prefer modern detective fiction with unreliable narrators or psychological complexity; this is straightforward, elegant puzzle-solving from 1954.
You dislike books where the detective is genuinely unlikeable; Wolfe is arrogant, demands exotic meals, and refuses to leave his house when he can help it.

About this book

Nero Wolfe is known for his wealthy clients and substantial fees, so his acceptance of a case for $4.30 is unusual. More troubling, the last two people who hired him have been murdered. When a twelve-year-old boy arrives at Wolfe's West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone, Wolfe suspects the boy's story holds the key to understanding these deaths. Wolfe becomes immersed in one of his most complex cases, which centers on several cryptic clues: a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and a pair of earrings shaped like spiders dipped in gold. The investigation reveals a pattern of greed and leads Wolfe to pursue the truth with characteristic determination. This is the twenty-second Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout, featuring Wolfe and his associate Archie Goodwin. The novel is part of Stout's original seventy-three cases featuring the detective.

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Currently 4.5★ from 1,522 reviews

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