Book Collector Mysteries: The Wolfe Widow (Audiobook)

from booksandscones

The Wolfe Widow is Book Three of the series by Victoria Abbott, the pen name for the mother-daughter writing team of Mary Jane Maffini and Victoria Maffini. This book didn't have the comical action of The Christie Curse and The Sayers Swindle, because a lot of the characters who provided the come...

from JalenV

I've been a fan of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries for over 20 years, so when I saw The Wolfe Widow on my library's new mysteries shelf, I pulled it. As soon as I saw 'Nero Wolfe first editions' on the back cover, I knew I had to check it out. The fact that the first sentence was the title of on...

from darcette

Vera Van Alst is a book collector who is dwindling her trust fund and running a household with a cook/housekeeper, handyman/gardener, and with Jordan, an orphan niece of the Kelly brothers. She's a bookish edition trader who doesn't brook a bad book deal and doesn't turn her nose up at vintage ve...

from cathyskye

In this third Book Collector outing, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are Jordan's role models to solve the mystery of Muriel Delgado, who's swiftly isolating Vera from anyone who could possibly help her. Vera may be without a safety net, but so's Jordan, who's recuperating from a bad accident. The ...

from Kathy89

I enjoyed this book but not as much as the first two in this series. Jordan gets fired and a mystery woman moves into Vera Van Alst's home and starts overtaking Vera's life. Jordan is almost killed trying to find out why Vera is caving to this woman but with the help of her uncles and 2 new frien...