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      Black Orchids

      by Rex Stout
      Published
      Jan 1942
      Main Genre
      Private Investigator Private Investigator
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      192
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      A Nero Wolfe Mystery Book 9

      About This Book

      Nero Wolfe has left his comfortable brownstone for the promise of a remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show--but before Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, have a chance to stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder takes place right under their noses and puts a blight on the proceedings. Now Wolfe's fancy turns to thoughts of weeding out a murderer--one who's definitely not a garden-variety killer. Only then will Wolfe be ready to throw his weight into a second thorny case, involving a rich society widow bedeviled by poison-pen letters--and a poisonous plot as black as Wolfe's orchids ... with roots that are even more twisted.

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      Book 9
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      Genres & Themes

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      Suspense

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      Private Investigator

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      Jan 1979 Jove ISBN13 9780515050851 ISBN10 0515050857
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      May 1992 Bantam ISBN13 9780553257199 ISBN10 0553257196
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      Jun 2010 Crimeline (Bantam) ISBN10 B003T0G9HG
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      Jul 2010 Random House ISBN13 9780307755735 ISBN10 0307755738
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      Dec 1996 DH Audio ISBN13 9780886468897 ISBN10 0886468892
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      Dec 2006 Books on Tape ISBN10 B000MDH1H0
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      Feb 2020 Books on Tape, Inc. ISBN13 9780736627979 ISBN10 0736627979
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      Jan 1942 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN13 9780816132898 ISBN10 0816132895
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