Murder in the Ball Park
by Robert Goldsborough
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Pub Date Nov 26 2013 | Archive Date Mar 18 2014
Description
Wolfe earns a big league call-up after a senator gets taken out at the ball game
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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Advance Praise
STARRED REVIEW: 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. —Publishers Weekly
“Devotees of the late Rex Stout’s bestsellers will be pleasantly surprised.” —Publishers Weekly
“Robert Goldsborough brings Nero Wolfe, late of Rex Stout, gloriously back to life.” —Chicago
“Mr. Goldsborough has all of the late writer’s stylistic mannerisms down pat.” —The New York Times
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| ISBN | 9781480445611 |
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