Product Description

Will the $45,000 champion bull become barbecue? For the first time in years, Nero Wolfe, one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, leaves the comfort of his New York City brownstone to become entangled in a family feud that becomes deadly. Listen as Nero and Archie Goodwin, his able assistant, try to solve three mysterious deaths: the champion bull, Hickory Caesar Grindon; Clyde Osbood, who bet his life that no one would be eating Caesar-burgers; and Bronson, the blackmail artist. In his reading, Michael Prichard captures the wry wit of the narrator, Archie, as Wolfe teases out the solution to the mystery. 6 cassettes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #264397 in Books
• Published on: 1990-02-01
• Released on: 1990-02-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 6.87" h x .76" w x 4.19" l, .31 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 288 pages

From Library Journal
It has been years since the orchid-growing eccentric Nero Wolfe has been outside his beloved home. This novel finds him in upstate New York with Archie Goodwin where he must endure poor food, uncomfortable chairs, warm beer, and three dead bodies. A family feud over the fate of a prize bull (send him to a stud farm or a steak house) plus tacky publicity stunts and blackmail all fit into the situation, told from Archie's point of view. Michael Prichard's reading is clear and adds to the atmosphere and overall enjoyment of the story. Recommended.?Denise A. Garofalo, Mid-Hudson Lib. System, Poughkeepsie, NY
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The New Yorker
"Nero Wolfe, the fat detective of Rex Stout's novels, towers over his rivals...he is an exceptional character creation."

Walter Mosley
"Rex Stout...raised detective fiction to the level of art. He gave us genius of at least two kinds, and a strong realist voice that was shot through with hope."