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    Gambit: Nero Wolfe, Book 37
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    Gambit: Nero Wolfe, Book 37

    Written by Rex Stout

    Narrated by Michael Prichard

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    About this audiobook

    A private club is the setting for murder when Paul Jerim, playing chess with twelve opponents, is poisoned. When her father is accused of the murder, beautiful Sally Blount calls on gourmet detective Nero Wolfe to find the real killer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 6, 2007
    ISBN9781415938256
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    Gambit: Nero Wolfe, Book 37
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    Rex Stout

    Rex Todhunter Stout (1886 – 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe and assistant Archie Goodwin. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century. Rex passed away in 1975.

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    • 4/5
      It looks like a slam-dunk of a case. Jerin was known to drink hot chocolate during games. Blount was the one who provided it...and the one who removed the cup and pot, rinsed the out and brought up new when he heard the Jerin was not feeling well. Suspicious? Very. But Miss Sally Blount felt different. She was positive her father was innocent and wanted Nero and Archie to prove it. It would be the first good thing she had done in her life.The murder had taken place in at the posh Gambit Club, a chess club for snobs. Jerin will play a dozen games at the same time without seeing the boards. Instead he will sit in another room and four messengers will bring him the moves and relay his moves to the other players. Blount brings Jerin his cocoa and leaves the room. When Jerin complains of sickness, Blount is the one to remove the cup, saucer and pot, rinse them and bring a fresh serving. Why did Blount rinse the utensils? This action puts Blount in the guilty seat as far as Inspector Cramer is concerned.Wolf is convinced that Blount is innocent, not just because of what Miss Blount tells him, but also because of the $22,000 she gives him to solve the case. Wolf hates to lose a fee.There are possible suspects: the messengers Yerkes - a retired banker, Farrow - the nephew of Mrs. Blount, Hausman - a retired broker, Kalmus - Blount's lawyer; but do they have a reason or the time to poison Jerin's cocoa? And what about Mrs. Blount who men find irresistible?Wolf finally decides that he needs to come up with a gambit to flush out the murder and keep his fee.
    • 5/5
      Classic Rex Stout with his iconic characters Nero Wolfe and his man of action, Archie Goodwin. The narrator does a fine job and brings the reader into the story. This particular mystery is, if the reader is paying attention, capable of being solved by the reader, even if there is a most satisfying and very Stout-ish twist involved. Well done.
    • 4/5
      A rather unpleasant young chess genius is poisoned while playing simultaneous games at an upscale New York chess club. Nero Wolfe investigates and ultimately learns that the murder was in act a gambit --a sacrifice intended to win a quite different prize.
    • 3/5
      Nero solves the case of the poisoned chess player. Good plot and dialogue but not much action!
    • 4/5
      This is one of those mysteries where the reader really should figure it out, but Stout has the red herrings coming so fast and furious that I really lost track of the obvious suspect. I guess that's why these are fun to read again and again.
    • 3/5
      Gambit is the first Nero Wolfe mystery that I've read. The thing that I found most interesting about it were the characters. Nero Wolfe is every bit the enigmatic genius that he is purported to be. It was hard to imagine a private detective who never leaves his house, and has another detective who does all of his leg work, but Wolfe manages to make it work. I also enjoyed the character of Cramer, who comes off as the cool, tough guy. He's a bit more stereotypical than Wolfe, but he is still well developed .The aspect of the book that I found least interesting was the actual mystery part of this. Not being a chess player, I had no concept of the runners and go-betweens that were critical to the novel. My concept of chess is two people sitting in front of a board facing each other. All of these extraneous people seemed pointless. Also, the killing and motive for killing seems so thin and weak. I think it takes something extraordinary for a regular person to kill another. In this case, it seemed like Stout wanted to come up with a murder surrounding a chess game but ran out of good reasons to have one human being kill another and what resulted was this flimsy garbage. All the same, it was not a bad read, more in terms of character than plot.Carl Alves - author of Two For Eternity
    • 4/5
      Gambit is about a murder at a chess tournament in which supposedly only a small number of people had opportunity to commit the crime. This novel was irritating because from the beginning to virtually the climax Wolf steadfastly ignored the person I figured had the best opportunity. The only thing I couldn’t figure out was how the murderer could have planned the murder in advance, which was necessary for the plot. Wolf is a genius—he should have spotted the most likely suspect and been working on the “how” from the beginning instead of waiting to be told the how before coming up with the who. In spite of my irritation--any Nero Wolfe is better than no Nero Wolfe!