Each time a volume of three shorter Nero Wolfe novels is published, it serves as a reminder of how exceptional is Rex Stout's skill in handling "full-length" characters and plot in novelette form. The stories in Three Witnesses are at least as good as any Stout has ever done before, and one of them happens to be Stout's favorite among all the novelettes he has written. In "The Next Witness" you will encounter the very timely case of the telephone answering service and the wiretappers, a case which Nero can solve only by taking the witness stand himself and exposing a murderer while under oath. "When a Man Murders" tells of the Enoch Arden marriage which might have ended even more tragically than it did, had not Archie played a vital witnessing role. Finally, in "Die Like a Dog," there is the story of the dog that led Archie and Nero into the case of the artist's missing model. And which of these is Rex Stout's favorite? Why, the one with the most astonishing conclusion, of course.
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Each time a volume of three shorter Nero Wolfe novels is published, it serves as a reminder of how exceptional is Rex Stout's skill in handling "full-length" characters and plot in novelette form. The stories in Three Witnesses are at least as good as any Stout has ever done before, and one of them happens to be Stout's favorite among all the novelettes he has written. In "The Next Witness" you will encounter the very timely case of the telephone answering service and the wiretappers, a case which Nero can solve only by taking the witness stand himself and exposing a murderer while under oath. "When a Man Murders" tells of the Enoch Arden marriage which might have ended even more tragically than it did, had not Archie played a vital witnessing role. Finally, in "Die Like a Dog," there is the story of the dog that led Archie and Nero into the case of the artist's missing model. And which of these is Rex Stout's favorite? Why, the one with the most astonishing conclusion, of course.