FER-DE-LANCE BY REX STOUT is the first book in the Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin series & is just as good today as it was back when it was published. I have been a Nero Wolfe fan for ages and I drug out my books the other day and decided it was time to re-read an old friend!
Mr. Stout, when he started this book did not start with this being Wolfe's first case. Instead we jump right into the office of Wolfe's during a time when money is tight and clients are few and far between.Stout describes the routines and the people of Wolfe's brownstone like they have been there forever, Fritz the cook,butler, Saul Panzer, Orrie Cather and of course Archie Goodwin & Nero Wolfe.
In FER-DE-LANCE, Wolfe & Archie get a visit from Fred Durkin, another character that Wolfe fans will see from time to time. Durkin asks a favor of Wolfe, to investigate the death of a man . This favor morphs into lies, half truths and Murder!
Nero Wolfe is one of those series you can read any of his books as a stand alone because the writer makes sure a reader can pick up one of his novels and start reading and not be lost. I call Nero/Archie's books "old friends" because I know I can pick one up and to me it feels like I never left that old brownstone.
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