I have read several of Goldborough's Nero Wolfe stories, and this one I enjoyed the least. The details of Wolfe's idiosyncrasies are way overdone, repeated again and again. There really was no mystery at all for nearly the first half of the story. Wolfe is upset that a wealthy Scotsman will buy his favorite newspaper and turn it into a tabloid. So he and Archie begins investigating. Boring, when this was written in 1978 the original Nero Wolfe of Stout's books would not have been involved in this. I nearly quit the book. Then a murder did happen, and it got somewhat interesting.
But, still the personal idiosyncrasies of Wolf and Archie were repeated ad nauseam, and the murder investigation dragged on and on like it was being drawn out to make the book's length. Of the several Goldsmith books I have read, this is the worst. I bought several others on sale and if they are like this I'll not finish them. Too bad. I enjoyed the prequel Nero Wolfe by Goldsborough, "Archie meets Nero Wolfe", and a couple of others. Also, bringing in a political bias was uncalled for, that was never in any of Stout's stories. If the other Goldsborough books I have yet to read are like this one, I'm finished with Goldsborough.
And the Introduction went on and on with how wonderful Goldsborough captured the original Rex Stout stories, it was obviously marketing hype, way too long, and the writer repeatedly said the same things over and over, like he was trying too hard to convince you that Goldsborough had perfectly replicated the original Nero Wolfe style. Hype turns me off. I should have listened to the one, two, and three star reviews of this book before buying this book, something I nearly always do. But this time I trusted to the several Goldsborough books I had read and ignored the reviewers. Mistake.
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