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Trouble at the Brownstone (Paperback)
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Archie Goodwin goes undercover on the waterfront in a new mystery
by the author who "does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy"
(Booklist). Archie Goodwin is not overly fond of Theodore
Horstmann, who takes care of the orchids on the rooftop of Nero
Wolfe's West Thirty-Fifth Street brownstone. But as loyal assistant
to the legendary private detective, Archie will put his animosity
aside when the surly orchid-keeper stumbles through the front door
beaten within an inch of his life. While the gardener lies in a
coma, Nero sends Archie to poke around his apartment near the
river. The place is neatly kept, if not quite as elegant as the
brownstone, but across the street on Tenth Avenue Archie quickly
discovers the longshoremen's watering hole in whose back room
Horstmann has been playing a lot of bridge lately. The smoky tavern
is packed with tough dockworkers and recent European immigrants,
and Archie does his best to blend in, filling the victim's empty
seat in his running card game, as he attempts to learn what sort of
shady business might have led to attempted murder. But when one of
his new bridge partners is killed, Archie finds himself caught up
in something much bigger than a bar fight . . . Trouble at the
Brownstone serves up postwar New York City atmosphere in a
fast-paced mystery featuring Nero Wolfe, "one of the two or three
most beloved detectives in fiction" (Publishers Weekly). "Mr.
Goldsborough has all of the late writer's stylistic mannerisms down
pat." -The New York Times
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