Please Pass the Guilt: Nero Wolfe, Book 45
Written by Rex Stout
Narrated by Michael Prichard
3.5/5
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A brilliant Rex Stout murder mystery featuring Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin
A bomb explodes in the desk drawer of a top TV executive. Was it intended for him or the man who opened the drawer? They each had enemies enough to die a dozen times over. Was it the jealous wife or the ambitious partner? The secretary who got passed around like an inter-office memo? Or the man who couldn't wash the blood off his hands? Nero Wolfe didn't want any part of it-but he was up to his neck in the toughest case of his career!
"It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."-The New York Times Book Review
Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stout (1886 – 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe and assistant Archie Goodwin. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century. Rex passed away in 1975.
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Reviews for Please Pass the Guilt
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A bomb in an office desk explodes, but who is the intended target? Meals in Nero Wolfe's house play a prominent role, but Robert Parker's Spencer books are more appetizing. As an other reviewer noted, the book was not as much fun as it should have been.And there is no discussion of the fact that one of the characters decides that the best way for her husband to become the new head of the company is by lacing his rival's whiskey with LSD.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As much as I love the Nero Wolfe series, this is one of the weaker installments. The premise is good (a bomb kills a TV network vice president; no one knows if he was the intended target), but the usual sense of fun is missing. The main characters don't seem to have much to do here and neither the suspects/witnesses nor the investigation are that memorable. This would have been better as a short story.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The mystery was good but some of the "modern" (1969) language and discussions were not what I expected from a Nero Wolfe book. None of it was offensive to me, just a great surprise.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One of the later mysteries which are usually not my favorites. It begins with Wolfe's reliable ally Doc Vollmer asking a favor for a colleague --a psychiatrist who has a client (who gives an obviously false name) who keeps seeing his hands covered with blood. Wolfe talks to the client and finds he was Kenneth Meers, a junior executive at a tV network, and a senior executive, a rival of his own boss in the upcoming decision on who would be the new head of the company --had blown himself up by opening a drawer in the desk of Meers; own boss's desk --a drawer containing nothing but a bottle of whiskey. Meers walks out after he is identified, but Archie Goodwin persuades the widow of the victim to hire Wolfe to find out who killed her husband--a task complicated by the fact that she confesses to Wolfe that her husband had opened that drawer to put LSD in his rival's whiskey to make him look bad in a crucial job interview that was to decide which of them got the top job. (I think Stout was trying too hard to be trendy by using LSD. A simple mickey finn would have made the rival look dopey and stupid, but LSD might produce bizarre hallucinations making it obvious he had been poisoned.) What I disiike about this story is that it is what I call a Hilary Waugh, as the device was used to often by that author--there is an obvious suspect, that suspect is seemingly cleared, and then after a long investigation the original obvious suspect turns out to e guilty after all.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A well constructed mystery very much in the tradition of Nero Wolfe novels. Rex Stout 's depiction of Detective Wolfe and assistant Archie Goodwin (thru whom the story is narrated) is done perfectly, and the mystery and suspects are introduced and developed thoroughly and concisely. The early 1970's setting also adds interest to this novel.