Rex Stout – författare

Nero Wolfe, världens största (ett sjundedels ton) detektiv är tillbaka! Och vid sin sida har han givetvis sin medhjälpare, den oefterhärmlige Archie Goodwin. Tillsammans ställs de inför sitt svåraste fall någonsin: Att identifiera en hänsynslös flerfaldig mördare som bara existerar som pseudonym på ett opublicerat och försvunnet bokmanuskript. När kommissarie Cramer vid New York-polisen går bet är det tur att Wolfe och Goodwin är i sitt esse. Boken avslutas med en extra kortroman med Nero Wolfe: Mord är inget att skämta om. Varken romanen eller novellen har översatts till svenska tidigare! Amerikanen Rex Stout räknas som en av 1900-talets mest betydelsefulla deckarförfattare. Totalt skrev han 33 romaner och 39 kortromaner om Nero Wolfe. Mördande manuskript kom ut första gången 1951 och var Wolfes nittonde framträdande. "Wolfe och Archie är båda i toppform." ANTHONY BOUCHER

Nero Wolfe must track down a killer who murders his victims only during holidays and who, so far, has left Wolfe with four puzzling cases to unravel.

When the elderly head of the Tingley Titbits catering service meets a sudden end, a beautiful young detective becomes the main suspect, until Tecumseh Fox arrives on the scene to sort out the ingredients in the case.

Cheaters never prosper, but Nero Wolfe encounters one who kills trying. At the Pour Amour perfume riddle contest, a million dollars goes to the contestant who can answer five questions. Someone doesn''t like the heat of competition, so he murders the contest founder and steals the answers to the riddles. Now Wolfe has to sniff down a trail of clues that leads disturbingly close to home.

Not much can get Wolfe to leave his comfortable brownstone, but the showing of a rare black orchid lures him to a flower show. Unfortunately, the much-anticipated event is soon overshadowed by a murder as daring as it is sudden. It’s a case of weeding out a cunning killer who can turn up anywhere—and Wolfe must do it quickly. Because a second case awaits his urgent attention: a society widow on a mailing list of poison-pen letters leading to a plot as dark as any orchid Wolfe has ever encountered.

Faith Usher talked about taking her own life and even kept cyanide in her purse. So when she died from a lethal champagne cocktail in the middle of a high society dinner party, everyone called it suicide—including the police. But Nero Wolfe isn’t convinced—and neither is Archie. Especially when Wolfe is warned by four men against taking the case. Deception, blackmail, and a killer who may have pulled off the perfect crime…it’ s a challenge Nero Wolfe can’t resist.

Three clever murderers challenge Nero Wolfe in cases involving lovers who want to make sure neither is a killer, a stable full of suspects in the search for a killer on horseback, and a murderer stalking Wolfe''s brownstone.

When an old acquaintance and fellow P.I. is accused of murdering a kept woman, Nero Wolfe investigates and finds several suspects in a mystery blackmailer, a sexy lounge singer, and a cold-blooded lady-killer.

Sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, leave West Thirty-fifth Street for a Montana dude ranch to clear an innocent man of a murder charge.

Archie Goodwin has his hands full when three baffling murders make him the recipient of a poisonous lunch, the fall guy for a beautiful woman, and the target of the U.S. Federal Government.

Hired to help society widow Rachel Bruner foil bothersome Feds, Nero Wolfe and his able assistant Archie get in over their heads with highly trained G-men who are adept at bugs, tails, and threats.

Tecumseh Fox thinks that he is seeing double when financier Ridley Thorpe is shot twice, two gorgeous suspects appear, two very good motives are revealed, and two murder weapons surface.

Hired to locate Amy Denovo''s long-lost father, Nero Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, discover that the missing man has a deadly and dangerous secret to hide.

As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man.  When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he''s getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president.  As for Wolfe, he''s playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda -- whistling a seductive tune he hopes will catch a killer who''s still got poison in his heart.From the Paperback edition.

When the seemingly safe return of an abducted millionaire ends in his murder in his own home, Nero Wolfe sends Archie Goodwin to do his usual legwork, while Wolfe uncovers corruption and greed among Manhattan''s elite.

Trying to determine why his last two clients were ruthlessly murdered, Nero Wolfe wonders if the answer is linked to a young boy who turns up at his brownstone apartment and finds clues in a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and spider-shaped earrings.

Nero Wolfe attempts to find the killer who murdered his victim with Wolfe''s own necktie, and he encounters a list of bizarre suspects, including a gun-toting wife and a cop-hating landlady.

With Nero Wolfe on the job, you''d think murderers would take caution. But even the master detective can''t stop a killing, especially if it''s an inside job -- right under the roof of his client, millionaire Otis Jarrell.What''s more, it''s Jarrell''s own missing revolver that the killer uses. Wolfe must find the truth behind the scandals in Jarrell''s ill-behaved family. One of its members sleeps the fitful sleep of the guilty, and Wolfe''s getting dead-tired of murder.

Aging millionairess Mrs. Rackham asks Nero Wolfe to find out where her penniless husband has suddenly been obtaining mysteriously large sums of money, a request that leads to murder and to threats against the master detective himself.

Paul Chapin''s college cronies never forgave themselves for the prank that crippled their friend. Yet with Harvard days behind them, they thought they were forgiven -- until a class reunion ends in a fatal fall. This league of frightened men seeks Nero Wolfe''s help. But are Wolfe''s brilliance and Archie''s tenacity enough to outwit a most cunning killer?

Eleven years after his own thoughtlessness sent his only son, Paul, away from home, Nebraska businessman James Herold calls upon Nero Wolfe to track down the young man so that he can make amends.

The Mother Hunt is the 18th novel by the Grandmaster of Mystery to be reissued in the Rex Stout Library. It''s a matter of maternity that brings Lucy Valdon to the brownstone on West 35th, after a baby is left on her doorstep.

When everyone who has read Leonard Dykes''s unpublished manuscript--including the author himself--is found dead, Nero Wolfe, along with his sidekick, decides to set a trap.

Called upon to investigate a sinister "accident" involving national security, Nero Wolfe must set the traps that will catch the pair of wily killers responsible.

When a Balkan beauty gets in trouble over some missing diamonds, whom else can she turn to but the world-famous Nero Wolfe?  Especially since she claims to be Wolfe''s long lost daughter!  The stakes are suddenly raised when a student at this woman''s fencing school ends up dead after a pointed lesson.  As Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, thrust and parry into a tangle of documents, identities and international intrigue, another student body turns up, expertly skewered through the heart.  Is Wolfe''s long lost daughter the black sheep of the family, a hot-blooded mistress of murder?

A Mets fan with a phony name and a millionaire client arrive just in time to provide a case for Nero Wolfe to pay the rent. The bizarre visitors are in a frenzy about a death trap explosion in the discreet whiskey drawer of a top TV executive. To crack this case of bombs and bourbon, the indolent genius and his energetic assistant must pick their way though corporate chicanery, vile ambition... and a healthy swig of murder.

Hours after Priscilla Eads pleads with him to take her case, Nero Wolfe is shocked to find out that she was murdered, and soon he is investigating her fortune-hunting husband and greedy business associates.