It’s hard to pick a favorite Nero Wolfe book, but this is in my top three. Nero Wolfe versus the FBI. Needless to say, Wolfe wins, with an assist fromIt’s hard to pick a favorite Nero Wolfe book, but this is in my top three. Nero Wolfe versus the FBI. Needless to say, Wolfe wins, with an assist from his erstwhile nemesis Lt. Cramer of the NYPD. ...more
Some Buried Caesar is one of the top five Nero Wolfe novels, and it’s just as great today as thirty years ago when I first read it. I would recommend Some Buried Caesar is one of the top five Nero Wolfe novels, and it’s just as great today as thirty years ago when I first read it. I would recommend it to someone who has never read Rex Stout, although the setting puts Wolfe and Archie in upstate New York rather than their familiar brownstone.
Michael Pritchard’s narration was good, possibly because there were few female characters; he doesn’t do females very well....more
Table of Contents: The adventure of the Christmas pudding / Agatha Christie Gold, Frankincense and murder / Catherine Aird Boxing unclever / Robert Barnard TTable of Contents: The adventure of the Christmas pudding / Agatha Christie Gold, Frankincense and murder / Catherine Aird Boxing unclever / Robert Barnard The proof of the pudding / Peter Lovesey The adventure of the Dauphin's doll / Ellery Queen Morse's greatest mystery / Colin Dexter More than flesh and blood / Susan Moody The butler's Christmas eve / Mary Roberts Rinehart The trinity cat / Ellis Peters The burglar and the whatsit / Donald E. Westlake Dancing Dan's Christmas / Damon Runyon A visit from St. Nicholas / Ron Goulart The thieves who couldn't help sneezing / Thomas Hardy Rumpole and the spirit of Christmas / John Mortimer A reversible Santa Clause / Meredith Nicholson A scandal in winter / Gillian Linscott The Christmas client / Edward D. Hoch The secret in the pudding bag & Herlock Sholmes's Christmas case / Peter Todd Christmas Eve / S.C. Roberts The adventure of the blue carbuncle / Arthur Conan Doyle Dead on Christmas street / John D. MacDonald Crime's Christmas carol / Norvell Page Serenade to a killer / Joseph Commings / The haunted crescent / Peter Lovesey A Christmas in camp / Edmund Cox The Christmas Bogey / Pat Frank The killer Christian / Andrew Klavan The ghost's touch / Fergus Hume A wreath for Marley / Max Allan Collins....more
Review of the audiobook narrated by Finella Woolgar.
It’s a mixed bag, as anthologies usually are, but I do think the publisher oversold them as ChrisReview of the audiobook narrated by Finella Woolgar.
It’s a mixed bag, as anthologies usually are, but I do think the publisher oversold them as Christie’s “spookiest and most sinister” work. There are just a few worth reading again. Philomel Cottage -very clever The Dream - Poirot is on the case, so how spooky can it be? The Idol House of Astarte - Miss Marple ditto. Wireless - I probably like this one because I figured it out before the end.
The narration by English actress Finella Woolgar is excellent.
If your goal is to read everything Christie wrote, I guess this is a must- have....more
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