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And Be a Villain

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And Be a Villain

Throwback Thursday takes us back to a New York City brownstone on the southside of West 35 Street and the mystery of a murder broadcast live on radio. Originally published in 1948, With more than a dozen Nero Wolfe mysteries under his belt, Rex Stout‘s And Be a Villain gives the great detective a case which will frustrate and confound both Wolfe and Archie for almost the entire novel when he’s hired to discover who poisoned a guest on a popular radio program during the sponsor’s commercial break.

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The Deep Blue Good-by

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“I found I had taken an irrational dislike to Junior Allen, that smiling man.”

Throwback Tuesday takes us back nearly 60 years to John D. MacDonald‘s first Travis McGee novel which would eventually span 21 novels taking place over the next two decades. Private investigator adjacent, McGee is, in his own words, a salvage consultant working out of his houseboat on the Florida coast. When in need of money, and for the right client, McGee will offer his services for half the value of whatever he can recover and is often the only recourse for those who have no legal remedy.

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