Books by Robert Goldsborough and Complete Book Reviews

Robert Goldborough, Author, Robert Goldsborough, Author Bantam Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07060-6
Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe is arguably one of the two or three most beloved detectives in fiction, and this fifth volume of Goldsborough's authorized re-creations of the series hero provides yet another opportunity for purists to argue whether he has...
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Robert Goldsborough, Author Crimeline $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28616-8
Although attempts to update the duo into the 1980s are jarring, ``fans of that fat genius, Nero Wolfe, and his indomitable sidekick, Archie Goodwin, will be gratified by this stylish revival,'' concluded PW. The mystery begins with a plea for help...
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Robert Goldsborough, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07241-9
Life imitates art imitates life. In his seventh Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin caper, the writer responsible for continuing the noted series after the death of originator Rex Stout plots a case around the corpse of an author who has continued a mystery...
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Robert Goldsborough, Author Bantam Books $13.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-553-05123-0
Devotees of the late Rex Stout's bestsellers will be pleasantly surprised by Goldsborough's first story about Nero Wolfe. Related by the elephantine genius's faithful assistant Archie Goodwin, this mystery starts when Maria Radovich asks him to...
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Robert Goldsborough, Author Bantam Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05281-7
The family of the late Rex Stout bestowed an imprimatur on Goldsborough's previous re-creations of Nero Wolfe. This third mystery carries as well a charming memoir of her father by Rebecca Stout Bradbury. Related again by the tubby orchid-grower's...
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Robert Goldsborough, Author Bantam Books $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05193-3
Goldsborough's Murder in E Minor authentically revived the late Rex Stout's famed Nero Wolfe and company, busy again in this appealing sequel. The unbeatable sleuth's trusty assistant, Archie Goodwin, tells of events Wolfe investigates without...
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Robert Goldsborough, Author Bantam Books $16.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-553-05383-8
Fans of that fat genius, Nero Wolfe, and his indomitable sidekick, Archie Goodwin, will be gratified by this stylish revival. The mystery begins with a plea for help from Archie's longtime pal, Lilly Rowan. Noreen James, Lilly's niece, has been...
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Robert Goldsborough, Author Bantam Books $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07237-2
The West 35th Street regulars return in Goldsborough's ( Fade to Black ) latest Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin escapade, the sixth in his continuation of the late Rex Stout's series. The duo are drawn into a murder in the cathedral when Lloyd Morgan,...
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Robert Goldsborough. Open Road/MysteriousPress.com, $14.99 ISBN 978-1-4532-6637-3
Set in 1923, Goldsborough’s excellent eighth pastiche to recreate Rex Stout’s iconic characters (after 1994’s The Missing Chapter) showcases his improved ability to recreate the smart-alecky voice of Archie Goodwin, the more-than-Watsonian sidekick...
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Robert Goldsborough. Open Road/MysteriousPress.com, $14.99 trade paper (193p) ISBN 978-1-4804-4565-9
At the start of Goldsborough’s superb ninth Nero Wolfe mystery (after 2013’s Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel), Archie Goodwin, Wolfe’s leg man, is on hand when a sniper takes out New York state senator Orson Milbank at a Dodgers-Giants game at...
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Robert Goldsborough. Mysteriouspress.com (Open Road, dist.), $14.99 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-1-4976-9041-7
At the start of Shamus Award finalist Goldsborough's first-rate 10th Nero Wolfe pastiche (after 2014's Murder in the Ball Park), Wolfe's leg man, Archie Goodwin, is returning home to his boss's West 35th Street Manhattan brownstone when someone...
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Robert Goldsborough. Mysteriouspress.com/Open Road, $14.99 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-5040-2357-3
Goldsborough’s outstanding 11th Nero Wolfe pastiche provides a sedate contrast to the previous volume, 2015’s Archie in the Crosshairs, which opened with a bang, as someone shot at Archie Goodwin, Wolfe’s leg man, on his way home. Lon Cohen of the...
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Robert Goldsborough. MysteriousPress.com, $14.99 trade paper (236p) ISBN 978-1-5040-4111-9
Broadway provides the backdrop for Goldsborough’s superior 12th Nero Wolfe pastiche (after 2016’s Stop the Presses!). A fellow orchid connoisseur, Lewis Hewitt, tells the sedentary sleuth that a friend of his, Roy Breckenridge, needs Wolfe’s help....
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Robert Goldsborough. Mysteriouspress.com, $14.99 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-5040-4910-8
Goldsborough does a nice job of shaking up the status quo in his 13th Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin pastiche (after 2017’s Murder, Stage Left). Lester Pierce, the director of the Good Government Group known as Three-G, who singled out Insp. Lionel...
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Robert Goldsborough. Open Road, $16.99 trade paper (258p) ISBN 978-1-5040-6661-7
Set in 1951, Goldsborough’s middling 16th Nero Wolfe mystery (after 2020’s Archie Goes Home) opens on a dramatic note with the arrival of a bloodied Theodore Horstmann, Wolfe’s orchid nurse, at Wolfe’s Manhattan brownstone. Before Horstmann loses...
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Robert Goldsborough, read by Peter Berkrot. Dreamscape Media, unabridged, 6 CDs, 6.5 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-5200-3497-3
The latest of Goldsborough’s add-ons to the late Rex Stout’s chronicles of gigantic genius crime-solver Nero Wolfe finds the plus-sized gourmet investigating the death of Cameron Clay, the New York Gazette’s ultrapopular but reviled gossipist. Wolfe
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Robert Goldsborough. Mysteriouspress.com, $16.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-5040-5754-7
Set in the late 1950s, Goldsborough’s disappointing 14th Nero Wolfe mystery (after 2018’s The Battered Badge) finds Wolfe’s assistant, Archie Goodwin, attending a fundraising dinner at the Waldorf Astoria to benefit the nearly completed Guggenheim...
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Robert Goldsborough. Mysteriouspress.com, $16.99 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-5040-5988-6
Goldsborough’s first-rate Nero Wolfe mystery (after 2019’s Death of an Art Collector) deepens Rex Stout’s characters by extrapolating from the original novels’ few clues to paint a plausible portrait of Archie Goodwin’s unnamed Ohio hometown. Archie’
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