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    And Four to Go: This Foursome Contains a Fatal Fete, a Toxic Orchid, a Speech Turned Funeral Oration, & a Murderer Dressed to Kill. Vintage Mystery Fare.
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    And Four to Go: This Foursome Contains a Fatal Fete, a Toxic Orchid, a Speech Turned Funeral Oration, & a Murderer Dressed to Kill. Vintage Mystery Fare.

    Written by Rex Stout

    Narrated by Michael Prichard

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    About this audiobook

    "It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."-The New York Times Book Review

    Embark on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring with sudden death at the Easter Parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked with corpses when death is in season. Here are four cunning cases that leave everyone guessing. When it comes to sleuthing out a clever solution, only Nero Wolfe has a clue.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 2, 2007
    ISBN9781415937709
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    And Four to Go: This Foursome Contains a Fatal Fete, a Toxic Orchid, a Speech Turned Funeral Oration, & a Murderer Dressed to Kill. Vintage Mystery Fare.
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    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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    • 4/5
      Four short stories with Nero Wolf and Archie Goodwin. I like the longer books rather than the short stories. These four stories did not give me the satisfaction of watching Nero and Archie outwit the police and solve the murders. Three of the stories revolve around holidays and the last is based on Cramer's quote. I liked Murder is No Joke the best because it showed more of Archie and Nero figuring out what was wrong with a series of events in the story
    • 4/5
      Four solid, interesting short stories featuring Wolfe and Goodwin
    • 4/5
      Always solid - easy to read and enjoyable when you're looking for a little escape.
    • 4/5
      Here we've got a set of four short stories, three of which revolve around holidays:Christmas Party finds Archie trying to teach Wolfe a lesson about making assumptions, which embroils them both in murder when a textile designer (and former client) is poisoned at his firm's holiday fête.Wolfe goes to drastic lengths to secure a sample of a rare orchid hybrid in Easter Parade, once again landing Archie in hot water when a wealthy woman is killed right in front of him on Fifth Avenue.Fourth of July Picnic takes Wolfe out of the brownstone and into the wilds of Long Island when he reluctantly agrees to be the keynote speaker at a gathering of food-service union members. When a union official is killed, it's up to the big man and his sassy sidekick to finger the culprit before the law fingers them.And finally, in Murder Is No Joke Wolfe uses a clever (and now obsolete) telephone trick first to prove that a murder occurred and then to solve it.Generally speaking, I don't love the Wolfe shorts as much as I do the full-length novels. They put an emphasis on plot that Stout's abilities can't always carry off, his strength to me lying in his well-drawn characters and ear for dialogue. But there's nothing really wrong with any of these, other than they leave me wanting more.
    • 4/5
      These four novellas, “Easter Parade”, “Christmas Party”, “Fourth of July” and “Murder Is No Joke” are typical Nero Wolfe fare and a pleasure for fans. I'm a fan and consider Stout's stories with a glass of wine to be the perfect way to wind down after a stressful day.

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    • 5/5
      I like just about all the Nero Wolfe stories, and these have some interesting twists. The first one has Archie announcing he has a marriage license and has to appear at his fiancee's office Christmas party. Nero Wolfe is so desperate he attends the party disguised as Santa Claus, only to see the owner of the business poisoned. Then Archie hires a man to steal a unique orchid from a woman's dress as she leaves church at Easter --not knowing she will be dying as it is stolen. Then Wolfe is asked to address to a restaurant workers Fourth of July picnic, and a union leader gets stabbed to death. Finally, the one non-holiday case involves an unpleasant woman who has installed herself at a high fashion designer's company with the designer's (reluctant) support, and the designer's sister hires Wolfe to remove her, but she is murdered first. The actual detecting in some of these cases is trivial, but the settings add interest.
    • 5/5
      The Black Orchid is in this, and for some reason, that is one of my favorites.