Saturday, October 15, 2011

"Champagne for One" Reviewed by Anthony Boucher, January 4, 1959


From "Criminals at Large," by Anthony Boucher, New York Times, January 4, 1959.

"Archie Goodwin happens to attend a dinner party for unwed mothers, at which an 'impossible' champagne-poisoning furnishes Nero Wolfe with 'a devil of a problem, with monstrous difficulties in an disagreeable context.' It's Wolfe's best book-length case in some years, combining an adroit puzzle with the most agreeably disrespectful treatment of maternity...."

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