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Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin return to investigate the suspicious apparent suicide of an irritable writer who was hired to continue a popular mystery series, in a case full of jealousy, ambition, and deadly extortion.From Publishers WeeklyLife imitates art imitates life. In his seventh Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin caper, the writer responsible for continuing the noted series after the death of originator Rex Stout plots a case around the corpse of an author who has continued a mystery series after the original writer's demise. A publisher hires Wolfe and Goodwin to investigate the death, labeled a suicide, of Charles Childress, an ill-tempered author who had recently angered several people, including his agent, his editor and the possibly corrupt reviewer who had lambasted the latest Childress novel. Yet for all that, Childress also had a pretty fiancee, a loyal friend in a fellow author and the devotion of many fans. Goldsborough carefully draws Wolfe and company into the '90s (computers figure in the plot and hold records of Wolfe's beloved orchids), yet the corpulent sleuth still abandons himself to Fritz Brenner's high-fat meals. As always, Archie does the legwork, which in this

Who reads The Missing Chapter?

Author

Robert Goldsborough

Publisher

Bantam

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781453266038

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Rating

3.78 / 5 (171 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14