: The Silent Speaker
Author: Rex Stout
I’d heard about this author, who created the dectective Nero Wolfe, and wanted to read some of his novels. This is the first one I’ve read and I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, the story moves slowly and it seems no progress is being made to solve the murder, which is frustrating. On the other hand, the ending was good and you see Wolfe’s genius in retrospect. (Essentially, he’d solved the murder earlier but waited until the right moment to reveal his knowledge, which was quite clever.) Some of the writing and situations are severely dated (this novel was written in the forties), but overall this is remarkably good mystery writing. I’m going to read more Wolfe before I make my final judgements as to how much I like these mysteries.
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