The Rubber Band: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

from TomDonaghey

The Rubber Band (1936) (Nero Wolfe #3) by Rex Stout. It is important to recall that this book was written in 1936. The “War To End All Wars” was just little more than a decade over. 40 years before this book there were gold and silver rushes going on out west, laws weren't very well written or ad...

from BooksForDinner

Stout is one of the great masters of the genre, and this one fits right in with the rest. Great dialogue, fast pacing, believable characters. Even the solution, while outdated of course, is fun!

from DeltaQueen50

The third Nero Wolf novel, The Rubber Band by Rex Stout was a good read but not my favorite of this series so far. The story was interesting but due to circumstances not only Wolf, but Archie and even the clients were housebound for the duration of the book. While they were sequestered away in hi...

from antiquary

A reprint of The Rubber Band with a new title and very misleadiing blurb ""She was the big shot's mistress, whom the cops wanted for grand larceny" --actually, she tells Wolfe the big shot in question was not enjoying what he called "the usufructs of gallantry" --for a further review see the orig...

from tuckerresearch

After watching most of the great Nero Wolfe A&E series (starring Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin), I decided to read some of the original novels. I got a hold of And Be a Villain and liked it, so I decided to get them all so I could read them in order (from 1934 t...