Nero Wolfe The League of Frightened Men, Book 2, (Paperback)

from punkypower

LoFG has a premise that has been repeated since, but never added up to the original. Back in their Harvard days, a hazing stunt went horribly awry, and Paul Chapin has lived with a physical reminder since. Present day, members of the League are turning up dead and the others, successful as they m...

from jeff1124

This is the 2nd Nero Wolfe book by Rex Stout. There have been two deaths among a group of college friends. The friends have all received notes, poems actually, claiming responsibility for the deaths. One member of the friends, was a victim of a hazing incident in college for which all of the othe...

from antiquary

When I was younger, this was one of my favorite Nero Wolfe stories, largely because I identified with the suspect Paul Chapin. Nowadays, I think it creates an interesting situation, but the result is a disappointment. A group of college friends pressure an unpopular though clever fellow student i...

from wdwilson3

A Thirties period piece, to be sure, but the plot stands up pretty well. Most interesting to me was how Stout could use so many speech patterns -- Wolfe's precise, educated, superior tone; Goodwin's street-wise, slangy; other characters befitting their education and status. Stout had a good ear. ...

from wildbill

This is my second Nero Wolfe mystery and the second book in the series. Rex Stout was a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the title reminded me of the Holmes story The Red Headed League. During their college years a group of Harvard students engaged in some hazing of a freshman. The freshman, Pau...