Trouble in Triplicate

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Trouble in Triplicate Rex Stout Series: Nero Wolfe [15] Published: 1993 Tags: Cozy Mystery, Vintage Mystery, Early 20th Century

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SUMMARY: A repackaged Nero Wolfe mystery--the perfect companion for anyone who savors a good murder served up with true flair. Features an introduction by noted writer Randy Russell and never-before-published memorabilia from the life of Rex Stout.

Rex Stout

Trouble in Triplicate

Introduction

Nero Wolfe gives me the creeps. I warn my friends to stay away from him. He is anything but ideal.

He grows those damn flowers, for one thing. They’re orchids brought indoors from the nether reaches of the rain forest, as I understand it. In blossom, orchids look like veined slices of flesh, slivers of pale tissue, of muscle limp in humidity. They’re fed on feces and filtered sky. Orchids are a rare delicacy when grown indoors in New York City, on the roof of a brownstone on Thirty-fifth Street. I suspect Nero Wolfe of eating them.

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