Nearly Nero
eBook - ePub

Nearly Nero

The Adventures of Claudius Lyon, the Man Who Would Be Wolfe

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Nearly Nero

The Adventures of Claudius Lyon, the Man Who Would Be Wolfe

About this book

Based on the Nero Wolfe series—one of the longest running, critically acclaimed, and bestselling series in the crime fiction world—a collection of Nero Wolfe–inspired crime stories from one of the most prominent crime writers of his era.From 1934 until his death in 1976, Rex Stout entertained the world with the exploits of Nero Wolfe—the eccentric, organ-breeding detective genius—as related by Archie Goodwin, his irreverent legman. Nearly Nero is an affectionate, tongue-in-cheek homage to Stout's greatest creation.Claudius Lyon is a fanatic admirer of Wolfe. He has retrofitted himself and his townhouse after Wolfe's and has hired a man named Arnie Woodbine to serve as his Archie Goodwin. However, Lyon's naivetĂ© and Woodbine's larcenous nature constantly put them in jeopardy—more than Wolfe and Goodwin ever faced. Somehow the imitator manages to find a solution from every problem. But can he and his assistant keep up this pretense for long?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Chapter 1: A Legacy: And How to Twist It (Almost) Beyond Recognition
  5. Chapter 2: Who’s Afraid of Nero Wolfe?
  6. Chapter 3: The Boy who Cried Wolfe
  7. Chapter 4: Wolfe at the Door
  8. Chapter 5: Wolfe on the Roof
  9. Chapter 6: Wolfe Trap
  10. Chapter 7: Wolfe in Chic Clothing
  11. Chapter 8: Wolfe in the Manger
  12. Chapter 9: Wolfe and Warp
  13. Chapter 10: Peter and the Wolfe
  14. Chapter 11: Wolfe Whistle
  15. Chapter 12: Snakes and the Fat Man: The Case of Nero Wolfe
  16. Recommended Reading
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Copyrights
  19. About the Author
  20. Copyright