from Romonko

3 1/2, Robert Goldsborough does a pretty good job of penning this prequel to the wonderful Nero Wolfe series written by the late, great Rex Stout. I read most of the books in that wonderful series, so thought I'd pick this one up. In it we see a young Archie Goodwin. Archie is a young man newly a...

from MrsLee

Robert Goldsborough has attempted to answer some of the questions many of the Archie and Nero fans have had, and that is how did they meet? How did they become associates? This book shows a very young Archie Goodwin fresh from Ohio to the Big Apple. It is the hard times of the early depression an...

from mysterymax

Archie Meets Nero Wolfe is a good Nero Wolfe pastiche, but you would not mistake it for the real thing. The plot is good, well-crafted, the characters are all there, but there is a mysterious 'something' missing. Archie's wise-acre attitude, maybe. Goldsborough has other Wolfe stories, but I thin...

from jamespurcell

Well done and quite authentic Nero Wolfe mystery pastiche. Archie meets Nero, let the game and the wisecracks begin. A whiparound the familiar supporting cast and the usual finale in Wolfe's office demonstrate Goldsborough attention to detail and atmosphere necessary to continue this fine and fun...

from druidgirl

A young man named Archie Goodwin from Chilicothe, Ohio goes to New York and gets a job working security on the piers and he shoots two men who are trying to steal from a docked ship, they shot first but his boss still fire him. Del Bascom as a private detective. They work a few small jobs, but th...