The Mother Hunt (Rex Stout Library)

✍ Scribed by Stout, Rex

• Book ID: 106924614
• Publisher: Crimeline
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 89 KB
• Series: Rex Stout Library
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780553247374

✦ Synopsis

Product Description

When a baby is abandoned on the doorstep of a young socialite widow, the woman thinks she knows the identity of the father: her deceased writer husband, the cad! But who is the mother? Reluctantly, Nero Wolfe accepts the case, and Archie identifies the first clue: unusual buttons on the baby’s overalls. "Vintage Stout: lots of grumbling and fine dining and brilliant thinking on Wolfe’s part." — Marilyn Wallace, mystery writer

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Someone drops off an infant on the doorstep of a wealthy and attractive widow. She hires Nero Wolfe, the famed P.I., to ferret out the baby's mother. A couple of murders result from the investigation, placing the onus on Wolfe and his street-smart legman, Archie Goodwin, to nab the killer. When reading this and other Wolfe whodunits, one gets the distinct impression that Archie, for all his complaining, not only loves working for the obese orchid-growing P.I., but gets a huge charge from writing about their cases. One gets none of that from listening to Michael Prichard's oral renderings of Stout's oeuvre for Audio Editions. He is as flat as a pancake, not even bothering to look up the pronunciation of some of Wolfe's less familiar expressions. To borrow one of Wolfe's MORE familiar terms--Pfui! Y.R. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine