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Indlæser... Gambitaf Rex Stout
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. 3.5* for this audiobook edition ( ) It looks like a slam-dunk of a case. Jerin was known to drink hot chocolate during games. Blount was the one who provided it...and the one who removed the cup and pot, rinsed the out and brought up new when he heard the Jerin was not feeling well. Suspicious? Very. But Miss Sally Blount felt different. She was positive her father was innocent and wanted Nero and Archie to prove it. It would be the first good thing she had done in her life. The murder had taken place in at the posh Gambit Club, a chess club for snobs. Jerin will play a dozen games at the same time without seeing the boards. Instead he will sit in another room and four messengers will bring him the moves and relay his moves to the other players. Blount brings Jerin his cocoa and leaves the room. When Jerin complains of sickness, Blount is the one to remove the cup, saucer and pot, rinse them and bring a fresh serving. Why did Blount rinse the utensils? This action puts Blount in the guilty seat as far as Inspector Cramer is concerned. Wolf is convinced that Blount is innocent, not just because of what Miss Blount tells him, but also because of the $22,000 she gives him to solve the case. Wolf hates to lose a fee. There are possible suspects: the messengers Yerkes - a retired banker, Farrow - the nephew of Mrs. Blount, Hausman - a retired broker, Kalmus - Blount's lawyer; but do they have a reason or the time to poison Jerin's cocoa? And what about Mrs. Blount who men find irresistible? Wolf finally decides that he needs to come up with a gambit to flush out the murder and keep his fee. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML:Jerin is a mental freak??a man capable of successfully playing a dozen simultaneous chess games against first-rate players while he himself is out of sight of any of the boards. It is while thus engaged that he is killed. A millionaire??his opponent in more realms than chess??is accused, and Nero Wolfe is given what appears to be the most hopeless case he and Archie Goodwin have ever tackled. You need to know nothing about chess to follow this tale, but some understanding of beautiful mothers and daughters will help. ??It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.???The New York Times Book Review A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America??s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained??and puzzled??millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable No library descriptions found. |
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