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There are few people Nero Wolfe respects, and Lon Cohen of the New York Gazette is one of them. So when Cohen asks for a favor, Wolfe is inclined to listen.
According to Cohen, someone wants to kill the Gazette's gossip columnist, Cameron Clay. Death threats are a regular hazard for Clay, who's hurled insults and accusations at every bold-faced name in the five boroughs. But the latest threats have carried a more sinister tone. The columnist has narrowed his potential killers down to five people.
When Clay turns up dead, the cops deem it a suicide. The bigwigs at the Gazette don't agree, so they retain Wolfe to figure out which of the suspects had the mettle to pull the trigger.
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Playful, seductive, irresistible - this best-selling masterwork of fatal passion and greed introduces Lawrence Sanders's most wickedly charming sleuth. Meet Archy McNally, a freewheeling playboy who specializes is "discreet inquires" for the rich and not-so-discreet. Beneath the glaring sun of Palm Beach - and behind the lowest crimes of high society - McNally is paid to keep family skeletons in the closet. But when it comes to sex and scandal, McNally has a few secrets of his own....
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Forgettable? Yeah, Like A Savory Rich Desert!
- By Ted on 04-03-14
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Fundraising the Dead
- A Museum Mystery
- By: Sheila Connolly
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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At The Society for the Preservation of Pennsylvania Antiques, fundraiser Eleanor "Nell" Pratt solicits donations - and sometimes solves crimes. When a collection of George Washington's letters is lost on the same day that an archivist is found dead, it seems strange that the Society president isn't pushing for an investigation. Nell goes digging herself, and soon uncovers a long, rich history of crime.
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Not Sure About This Series
- By Chalis on 11-21-14
By: Sheila Connolly
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Dead Irish
- Dismas Hardy, Book 1
- By: John Lescroart
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss - but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts.
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Soap-opera thrillers?
- By Snoodely on 01-27-10
By: John Lescroart
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Dead Certain
- A Novel
- By: Adam Mitzner
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Ella Broden is living a double life. By day, Ella works as a buttoned-up attorney on some of the city's most grueling cases. By night, she pursues her passion for singing in the darkest clubs of Manhattan. No one knows her secret, not even Charlotte, the younger sister she practically raised. But it seems she's not the only one in the family with something to hide. When Charlotte announces she's sold her first novel, Ella couldn't be more thrilled...until she gets a call that her sister's gone missing.
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- By Amazon Customer on 06-16-17
By: Adam Mitzner
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Finale
- A Novel of the Reagan Years
- By: Thomas Mallon
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
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From the author of the acclaimed novel Watergate comes a galvanizing new novel about the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president of modern times - Ronald Reagan. Finale takes listeners to the political gridiron of Washington in 1986, the wealthiest enclaves of Southern California, and the volcanic landscape of Iceland, where the president engages in two almost apocalyptic days of negotiation with Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Gore Vidal for the 21st Century
- By philip on 10-31-15
By: Thomas Mallon
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Imperfect Strangers
- By: Stuart Woods
- Narrated by: Tony Roberts
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Sandy Kinsolving's once-glittering life hangs by a thread; his future depends on his wife's inheritance and whether or not she's about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn't give for a solution to his money and marriage problems. If this were an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the solution would be obvious. Enter a stranger with wife problems of his own, who offers a violent - and mutually advantageous - proposal. Then, in the time it takes to whisper a word, Kinsolving's normal life ends.
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Woods is great even without Stone
- By jasiowa on 10-19-16
By: Stuart Woods
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The Sins of the Fathers
- By: Lawrence Block
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
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The hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again--that's where Matthew Scudder comes in.
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Good introduction to a popular series
- By Sharron on 12-26-11
By: Lawrence Block
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Santa Fe Rules
- By: Stuart Woods
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
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Successful movie producer Wolf Willett is stunned when he sees his own death reported in a major newspaper. It says he was a victim in a triple homicide during a sordid tryst with his wife and a friend. But who is the unidentified corpse? Why can't Wolf remember anything about the night in question? And who wants him dead?
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Too much sex stuff
- By Kathleen Fuller on 06-11-19
By: Stuart Woods
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Mistress of Justice
- By: Jeffery Deaver
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he's defending but his career as well.
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Pathetic! I wasted a credit!
- By Wayne on 06-28-18
By: Jeffery Deaver
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Mortal Friends
- By: Jane Stanton Hitchcock
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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When the latest victim of the "Beltway Basher" is found in the woods of Montrose Park, Reven Lynch's favorite jogging spot, her crime-loving antenna goes up. The murder makes Reven and her best friend, Violet Bolton, reconsider their running route - but that's not the only change in Reven's routine.
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Kept me guessing
- By Anonymous User on 12-30-21
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Secret Sanction
- Sean Drummond Series, Book 1
- By: Brian Haig
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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A battalion of Serbs has been senselessly murdered in Kosovo, and the Green Berets stand accused. Now, Major Sean Drummond, a top Army lawyer, is assigned to investigate this unspeakable atrocity. But of course, no one saw anything. Drummond gets consistently suspicious depositions from all of the Green Berets: Supposedly pursued by Serb soldiers, they left the engagement with wounded Serbs firing at them, and no one can explain the number of deaths.
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I want the rest of the Sean Drummond series!
- By shelley on 11-10-16
By: Brian Haig
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-02-16
Good book, wrong reader
I like the way the author keeps to the spirit of Nero Wolfe and Archie and the rest of them. He is true to the spirit. Alas the book would have been more enjoyable with a different reader. I swear I heard an occasional Irish lilt in Archie's portrayal..and that's when he didn't sound like Albert Campion or Lord Peter. The reader is perfect for the British cozy. He should stick to that and the publisher should find a reader who can do Archie, Saul, Lon and the rest of the city dwellers in the voice Stout .. And now Goldsborough...meant them to have.
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- JAJ
- 08-03-20
Takes getting used to
This Audible book needs to be played at about 1.2 or 1.3 speed to make the narration acceptable. After that, it’s just a matter of accepting a different reader.
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- J.C.D.
- 01-15-17
SURE DOESN'T SOUND LIKE NERO WOLFE
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
No. The narrator had a strange interpretation of the characters. It was extremely difficult to listen to him.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Archie - he's always good for laughs and snide comments
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
I couldn't tell - I couldn't get past the narrator
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
No. I couldn't stand to listen to the book any more.
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- Stephen W Osborne
- 06-01-17
Good story, narration...eh.
Goldsborough does a pretty good job bringing back the world of Wolfe, and there were only a few jarring missteps in this one. Here we have 5 major suspects in the death of a much hated newspaper columnist. Often when you have a bunch of suspects, it's hard to keep them apart. (Who's this guy now? Oh yeah, he was the architect.) I'm happy to say you've got none of that here. All the characters were very distinctive, and the story flowed well. I took off a star because the ending, for me, was a little flat. Now on to the narration. No. Peter Berkrot makes Archie sound soft and wistful. The snappy banter comes across as neither snappy nor as banter. And Wolfe? OMG he sounds like a peevish toddler with a mouth full of mashed potatoes. Berkrot's phrasing often makes characters, especially Archie, sound like they're creepy characters in a horror movie. You know, the weird caretaker who tells the hero, "Don't go to the Manor House. Strange things happen there." Most of the characters were great, but he made such bad choices for his Archie and Wolfe voices.
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- C. Park
- 03-24-23
Story was standard fare for the series
Story wss good but this was ruined by the narrater I think I will ask for my credit back ad listening was almost un bearable.
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- mudcelt
- 08-23-16
Solid Pastiche Destroyed by Horrible Narrator.
I've really enjoyed Goldsborough's continuation of the Nero Wolfe series even if the narrator of the previous Goldsborough books wasn't as good as Michael Pritchard. It was pleasant to spend time back in the brownstone with Nero, Archie and the rest of the regular crowd. And the narrator of the previous Goldsborough books wasn't Pritchard, but he wasn't terrible either.
But there's a different narrator for this book (Peter Berkrot instead of L J Ganser) and I HATED him. He made both Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe sound terrible, like sneering condescending actors who hate the lines they're forced to speak. The narrator drops in and out of a travesty of a southern accent at random and that probably the least objectionable thing in his performance. Perhaps he'd be decent for a different series, but I won't listen to him ever again to find out. The only reason I didn't stop listening to the book and return it was because I was desperate to spend time with Archie and Nero Wolfe, I've already listened to literally everything else Audible has from both Rex Stout and Robert Goldsborough and I didn't have the time to read as opposed to listen to the book.
Don't make the mistake I did. Re-listen to one of Michael Pritchard's masterpieces or revisit earlier books from Robert Goldsborough, but this book with this narrator is not worth your time or your money.
Buy or download the actual book and read it for yourself if you can: the plot is decent and the characters are solid, I loved that we got to spend a bit more time with Archie and Lily Rowan, but don't make the mistake I did. The narrator ruined an otherwise solid book for me.
I'm off to have Michael Pritchard sooth me with the beginnings of Archie & Lily's friendship. I'm going to re-listen to Some Burried Ceasar and then maybe Death of a Dude. Summertime with LaRowan, with Pritchard reading, please and thanks.
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- S. Taylor
- 01-25-17
Good story, not so good narration (referring to Audio ed.).
The story was nicely done. However the more Nero Wolfe stories the author writes, the further he drifts away from Rex Stout's original books & short stories he gets.
It was the overall atmosphere in the old brownstone that holds the readers attention, &I made them timeless. Mr Goldsborough, in the first few Nero Wolfe books, did a fairly good job recreating that atmosphere. In my opinion he is not even close any more.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-05-17
narration is a problem
I have to agree with the other reviewers about the narration. It is all wrong. Archie's voice is almost unbearable.
LJ Ganser is an excellent narrator for this series and I have enjoyed his performances in the other stories.
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- Levi Knox
- 01-24-18
Lousy Narration
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
I have listened to all of the Rex Stout Nero Wolfe books available on audible and all of the rest of the Robert Goldsborough books. I wanted to listen to this one to complete the set. I endured the lousy narration to do this. The story isn't Stout but like the rest it is pretty good, at least worth listening to.
What did you like best about this story?
This book has a very unique ending from all of the other Nero Wolfe stories that I have listened to.
How could the performance have been better?
A totally different narrator is needed. At least five different voices were used for Archie Goodwin, the predominant one being effeminate. At one point in the narration the voice used for Archie was the same one used for a female opera prima donna in the previous scene. It sounds like the narrator was trying to do Sydney Greenstreet for Nero Wolfe.
Do you think Stop the Presses! needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
This is just another book in the series. if another one was written and recorded I would listen to it but another isn't required.
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- Pamela
- 02-03-20
Wrong narrator
Peter Berkrot is a TERRIBLE choice as a narrator for a Nero Wolfe mystery. Berkrot isn’t isn’t in and of himself a poor narrator. He sounds like your favorite elderly neighbor, friendly, cheerful and sweet, there are not characteristics one associates with Archie (the character narrator of all the Wolfe books.) Berkrot also speaks too slowly for the tempo of the book. Having listened to all the available Rex Stout and Robert Goldsborough Wolfe books, this is the only one with a narrator issue. Fortunately, in the next book in the series, LJ Ganser returns as narrator. He isn’t fabulous but he is better than average and his voice is appropriate.
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