About this item
Stories that pay tribute to Rex Stout's legendary private detective by Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Goldsborough, and more. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have been widely flattered almost from the moment Rex Stout first wrote about them in 1934. The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe collects two dozen literary tributes to one of crime fiction's best-loved private detectives and his Man Friday. Included are: A 1947 pastiche by award-winning crime writer Thomas NarcejacRollicking new stories written especially for this collection by Michael Bracken and Robert LoprestiStories by bestselling authors including Lawrence Block and Loren D. EstlemanChapters from Robert Goldsborough's authorized continuation of the Wolfe series; Marion Mainwaring's 1955 tour de force Murder in Pastiche; and John Lescroart's Rasputin's Revenge, which reimagines a young Wolfe as the son of Sherlock Holmes Also featuring a reminiscence from Rex Stout's daughter, this is a treasury of witty and suspenseful crime writing for every fan of the portly private detective.
About the Author
JOSH PACHTER is a writer, editor and translator. More than a hundred of his short crime stories have appeared in EQMM, AHMM, and many other periodicals, anthologies, and year's-best collections. The Tree of Life (Wildside Press, 2015) collected all ten of his Mahboob Chaudri stories, and he collaborated with Belgian author Bavo Dhooge on Styx (Simon & Schuster, 2015) . He is the editor of many anthologies, including:* The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell (Untreed Reads, 2020) * The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe (Mysterious Press, 2020) * The Man Who Read Mysteries: The Short Fiction of William Brittain (Crippen & Landru, 2018) * The Man Who Solved Mysteries: More Short Fiction by William Brittain (Crippen & Landru, 2022) * Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon (Down and Out Books, 2022) .He also co-edited Amsterdam Noir (Akashic Books, 2019) and The Misadventures of Ellery Queen (Wildside Press, 2018) , and co-wrote (with the legendary Ellery Queen) The Adventures of the Puzzle Club (Crippen & Landru, 2022) .Coming in 2023:* Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Beatles (Down and Out) * Dutch T(h) reat (Genius Books) .
