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Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. The national anthem is just winding down when Panzer spies a notable in the box seats: state senator Orson Milbank, a silver-haired scoundrel with enemies in every corner of upstate New York. In the fourth inning, a monstrous line drive brings every fan in the grandstand to his feet—every fan save for one silver-haired senator, who has been shot dead by a sniper in the upper deck.
Archie’s employer—the rotund genius Nero Wolfe—has no interest in investigating the stadium slaying, but Archie is swayed by the senator’s suspiciously lovely widow. Her husband was mired hip-deep in corruption, and sorting out who killed him will be a task far less pleasant than an afternoon at the ball park.
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- ISBN: 9781480445611
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Starred review from November 25, 2013
At the start of Goldsborough’s superb ninth Nero Wolfe mystery (after 2013’s Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel), Archie Goodwin, Wolfe’s leg man, is on hand when a sniper takes out New York state senator Orson Milbank at a Dodgers-Giants game at the Polo Grounds in post-WWII Manhattan. The politician had ruffled some feathers with his shifting position on an upstate parkway, including those of a mob boss and of naturalists concerned about the project’s environmental impact. Milbank’s widow, former Hollywood actress Elise DuVal, makes Wolfe an offer he cannot refuse to solve the case after the NYPD fails to make any meaningful progress. The investigation follows the usual dynamic of Rex Stout’s originals, with Archie dutifully reporting back to the sedentary genius before a gathering of the suspects in Wolfe’s West 35th Street brownstone for the satisfying denouement. Agent: Erik Simon, Martha Kaplan Agency. -
January 1, 2014
Archie Goodwin and his favorite private operative, Saul Panzer, decide to take in a ball game at the Polo Grounds a few years after the end of WWII. The game is forgotten when a sniper's bullet takes out state senator Orson Milbank, the originator of legislation creating a roadway from New York City into some nearby rural counties. Environmental groups are opposed, as is a mobster with bloody hands. Was Millbank's killing political, or did his womanizing catch up with him? The police get nowhere, and eventually a reluctant Nero Wolfe agrees to take the case. Per usual, Archie does the legwork, while Wolfe ruminates and tends to his orchids. Ah, life in the famous brownstone, where Wolfe eventually gathers the principals and reveals the killer in his usual genteel fashion. Goldsborough has been engaged by the Rex Stout estate for nearly 30 years to keep Archie and Wolfe on the case. His plotting is excellent, the red herrings clever, and the Wolfeian eccentricities comforting. Very enjoyable.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)
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