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Title	:	The Rubber Band (Nero Wolfe #3)
Author	:	Rex Stout
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1995 by Bantam (first published April 9th 1936)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Detective

The Rubber Band (Nero Wolfe #3) Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

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What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services, it becomes Nero Wolfe’s job to look deeper and find the connection. A forty-year-old pact, a five-thousand-mile search, and a million-dollar murder are all linked to an international scandal that could rebound on the great detective and his partner, Archie, with fatal abruptness.

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Original Title:	The Rubber Band
ISBN:	0553763091 (ISBN13: 9780553763096)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Nero Wolfe #3
Characters:	Mike Walsh, Clara Fox, Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin

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Only the third of the Nero Wolfe novels, written in 1936, when all the male visitors to Wolfe's brownstone wore hats and overcoats, and the ritzier ones had canes to be left near the front door. A trunk call to Nebraska remarkably took only ten minutes to be put through by a series of long distance operators. Archie has not yet developed the intelligence he will display in later books (30 years later he and Wolfe will not have aged, although they will have changed a little), but his love-hate,

While this Nero Wolfe installment is not one of my favorites, it still is a strong mystery. Grand Larceny, an English Nobleman, a 50 year old debt, and Murder has the detective spinning and a female staying in Wolfe's house. Archie's wit and cynicism is fully on display and expect a few laughs, especially when the police execute a Search Warrant on Nero Wolfe's home . Everything does eventually tie together and the culprit was a surprise to me.

Nero Wolfe novels are just plain fun and I should read more of them. I'm glad I read the first in the series first, as Stout introduced his characters there, but I think the rest of the them can be read in pretty much any order. At least that is the premise I'm going to operate under. Only Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin are more than caricatures. I will probably always picture them as the actors who played them in the TV series. Wolfe commands a wide network of operators. Though

Rex Stout in "The Rubber Band" gives the reader a misadventure in Nevada in 1895, which has repercussions in New York City forty years later.A fast moving plot.



Among the firsts in this book, the third in the series:Wolfe's exercise program.Sgt. Stebbins tagging along with Inspector Cramer on a visit to Wolfe's brownstone.I don't recall the use of pfui by Wolfe in the first two books. It appears in this book.Cramer is still smoking a pipe at times and again refers to Archie as "sonny". Cramer hasn't jelled completely yet.

In only the loosest sense are the t Nero Wolfe books a series. Though they are numbered sequentially, that is more so for the time frame of each title's publication and the time era of the story. In every other way, these books can be read as stand-alones without missing anything critical to the enjoyment or understanding of the book in hand.