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Bitter End and the Last Drive by Rex Stout (2018, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherLulu Press, Inc.

ISBN-10138788378X

ISBN-139781387883783

eBay Product ID (ePID)13038855240

Product Key Features

Book TitleBitter End and the Last Drive

Number of Pages110 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMystery & Detective / General

Publication Year2018

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorRex Stout

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight6.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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SynopsisBitter End, the first novella length adventure featuring Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, appeared in the November 1940 issue of The American Magazine. The story, which is dark and complex, explores the family, business and personal relationships of the owners and employees of a specialty food manufacturer. Wolfe has a personal encounter with one of their products that has been poisoned and feels compelled to investigate Before there was Nero Wolfe there were others, detectives such a Canby Rankin, Dol Bonner, and Tecumseh who paved the road for the most famous of Stout's detectives. The Last Drive features Canby Rankin, the "Southerner who had turned detective," in a story serialized in Golfers Magazine. The story can be viewed as a precursor of Fer-de-Lance, the first Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin novel-length mystery, in the sense that the device used here is almost identical to the murder weapon at the center of Fer-de-Lance.