Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe

Media: Book
Title: The Silent Speaker

(I need to choose another media type don’t I, books four times running.) Well I really did want to document my finishing another Nero Wolfe novel and tell you about my Rex Stout project. I first came across Rex Stout’s character Nero Wolfe in old time radio broadcasts. Then I saw his name mentioned in Nancy Pearle’s Book Lust as a Too Good to Miss author, so I checked out one of his mysteries from the library. I was hooked immediately and had been reading the Nero Wolfe collection haphazardly, whatever was available at the library. About two months ago I decided to start from the beginning and read the entire series in order, all 48 novels. The Silent Speaker is novel 11, but two of those 11 was composed of 2 short novellas, so The Silent Speaker is mystery number 13. I will simply conclude by highly recommending picking up a Nero Wolfe mystery. (And make sure it is a Rex Stout, other authors wrote using Nero Wolfe.) He one of the most vivid characters in literature. I place him second only to Sherlock Holmes as a detective/private investigator, and Archie Goodwin outshines Dr. Watson as a companion and scribe of the great man’s tales.