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For the sixth time Robert Goldsborough invites us into Nero Wolfe’s West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone, and once again he re-creates Wolfe’s world to perfection, as the gourmandizing master detective is roused from his sacred orchid-tending routine — by murder. Picturesque Richmond County — Staten Island to most people — is the most overlooked borough in New York City, but one of its residents is known throughout the world: the good reverend Barnabas Bay, shepherd of the Tabernacle of the Silver Spire. For the past six Sundays the splashy televangelist has found a nasty surprise in the collection... Bible quotations twisted into death threats. When one of Reverend Bay’s assistants beseeches Wolfe to find the wicked perpetrator, he refuses — even though the almighty bank account is in need of salvation. After all, the great man does have his convictions, and organized religion offends his sense of morality. And besides, the only plate he’s interested in passing is the one on which a three-star epicurean masterpiece resides. Never one to shirk his Christian duty. Wolfe’s faithful legman Archie Goodwin refers the case to longtime friend and fellow private detective Fred Durkin. It proves a fateful decision: Eleven days later someone at the Silver Spire receives a premature call to meet his maker — and Durkin is charged with murder. As Archie searches for clues and prays for a miracle, the incomparable Nero Wolfe finds himself up against a sinfully clever killer in one of the most baffling — and damning — cases of his career.

Nero Wolfe is back in all his orchid-growing, gourmandizing glory! In The Bloodied Ivy and two previous bestsellers. Robert Goldsborough re-creates Stouts sedentary supersleuth and his energetic aide. Archie Goodwin, so convincingly that even the most devout Stout fans are delighted. John McAleer, Stouts official biographer and editor of The Stout Journal, has said, “A half dozen other writers have attempted it, but Goldsborough’s is the only one that feels authentic, the only one able to get into Rex’s psyche. If I hadn’t known otherwise. I might have been fooled into thinking this was the genuine Stout myself.’ Playboy Sparky Linville has a nasty notion of fun and games. But when he picks popular Noreen James as his unwilling playmate, the result is murder — and a case that will rock Manhattan’s trendy Upper East Side and divide the family of Lily Rowan. Noreens aunt. As furor rages in the local press and the police fix their attention on her relatives. Lily turns to her old friend and confidant Archie Goodwin for help, hoping he can convey the seriousness of the family’s plight to his eminent employer, Nero Wolfe. Wolfe decidedly doesn’t enjoy being distracted from his greenhouse and his groaning board. Yet Archies eloquence — and the prospect of an enormous fee — seduce him into accepting the case. It is, of course, understood that since the master detective has no intention of venturing forth from his snug brown stone sanctuary on Manhattan’s West Side, Archie will handle the leg work. But the more shoe leather Archie burns, the more burning questions arise. There are altogether too many suspects — and every one of them has (a) a strong motive and (b) no alibi. And on top of that, two people have confessed to the crime! Now as Archie faithfully relates his findings, the great Nero Wolfe is left to ponder this bizarre puzzle — and the deadliest coincidence-in the most baffling case of his career.

Archie Goodwin is not overly fond of Theodore Horstmann, who takes care of the orchids on the rooftop of Nero Wolfe’s West Thirty-Fifth Street brownstone. But as loyal assistant to the legendary private detective, Archie will put his animosity aside when the surly orchid-keeper stumbles through the front door beaten within an inch of his life. While the gardener lies in a coma, Nero sends Archie to poke around his apartment near the river. The place is neatly kept, if not quite as elegant as the brownstone, but across the street on Tenth Avenue Archie quickly discovers the longshoremen’s watering hole in whose back room Horstmann has been playing a lot of bridge lately. The smoky tavern is packed with tough dockworkers and recent European immigrants, and Archie does his best to blend in, filling the...

Не один писатель пытался возродить стиль Рекса Стаута, но лишь Роберту Голдсборо удалось уловить дух его неподражаемых детективов. Читателя ждет новая встреча с самым блисательным сыщиком нашего века. Крутые повороты сюжета, хитроумные интриги, сочные диалоги и тонкий юмор - НИРО ВУЛЬФ ВЕРНУЛСЯ, ЧТОБЫ ПОБЕДИТЬ! Таинственный враг преследует угрозами знаменитого телепроповедника. Ниро Вульфу это дело не по душе, поэтому в церковь на Стейтон-Айленде отправляется Фред Даркин. Но храм посещает смерть - и все улики против Фреда. Как же Ниро Вульфу покинуть попавшего в переплет друга! И знаменитый сыщик начинает новое расследование...

Nero Wolfe, the brilliant orchid-growing gourmet detective, and his inimitable confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, are America’s most beloved detection team. Now they are back in a splendid new murder mystery that takes up where Rex Stout left off. In the perfect Stout tradition, author Robert Goldsborough has ingeniously rendered every detail of character and place with such uncanny accuracy that fans will savor every page to its surprising and immensely satisfying conclusion. Threatening notes have been sent to Milan Stevens, celebrated conductor of the New York Symphony. His niece, Maria, fears for her uncle’s life and travels to the Thirty-fifth Street brownstone of Nero Wolfe. Archie can barely conceal his surprise when Wolfe agrees to investigate — Archie has just spent two spectacularly unsuccessful years trying to pry his employer out of retirement. But Wolfe has his own reasons for taking the case, reasons that have nothing to do with helping a pretty young woman in distress. For while the world knows Milan Stevens as a brilliant conductor, Wolfe knows him as Milos Stefanovic, the brave freedom fighter who saved Wolfe’s life many years ago. It is a debt that must be paid. But Maria has come to the big detective too late. Milan Stevens is soon found dead, and Maria’s musician boyfriend, Gerald, is in police custody. Despite Maria’s cries that Gerald could not have possibly committed such a bloody act, there are plenty of witnesses who overheard Stevens screaming at Gerald that marrying his niece was out of the question. To make matters worse, Gerald also happened to be the only person seen entering Stevens’s apartment on the night when the final curtain was pulled on his brilliant life. The juicy public scandal of it all enthralls the city, which is anxious for the next development and the climax of the case. With precious little to go on, and not sold on Gerald’s guilt, Wolfe and Archie begin compiling a list of suspects, discovering very soon that the problem isn’t where to start — it s where to stop. But when the scanty clues finally arrange themselves like notes on a score, Wolfe recognizes a dark melody that only a talented murderer could perform.

У Ниро Вульфа немного друзей, но этим немногим он хранит непоколебимую верность. Одним из таких друзей, в частности, является не личность, а целое учреждение — «Нью-Йорк газетт», которая на протяжении долгих лет оказывала ему помощь. При этом Вульф тоже не единожды помогал газете. Но главное состоит в том, что его волнует судьба «Газетт». Поэтому он взялся за расследование, не имея клиента и без перспективы на гонорар, хотя в конечном итоге получил и то, и другое.

Не один писатель пытался возродить стиль Рекса Стаута, но лишь Роберту Голдсборо удалось уловить дух его неподражаемых детективов. Читателя ждет новая встреча с самым блисательным сыщиком нашего века. Крутые повороты сюжета, хитроумные интриги, сочные диалоги и тонкий юмор - НИРО ВУЛЬФ ВЕРНУЛСЯ, ЧТОБЫ ПОБЕДИТЬ!

Не один писатель пытался возродить стиль Рекса Стаута, но лишь Роберту Голдсборо удалось уловить дух его неподражаемых детективов. Читателя ждет новая встреча с самым блисательным сыщиком нашего века. Крутые повороты сюжета, хитроумные интриги, сочные диалоги и тонкий юмор - НИРО ВУЛЬФ ВЕРНУЛСЯ, ЧТОБЫ ПОБЕДИТЬ!

Арчи Гудвин не успел отомстить негодяю, обесчестившему юную племянницу его подруги Лили Роуэн. Его опередили - труп насильника найден в гараже. Арчи оказывается в числе подозреваемых - и это еще одно запутанное дело, разгадка которого зависит от острого ума и детективного таланта Ниро Вулфа.