The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe: Parodies and Pastiches Featuring the Great Detective of West 35th Street - Softcover

Block, Lawrence; Butler, Patrick; Reynolds, Mack; Brittain, William; Estleman, Loren D.; Lescroart, John; Narcejac, Thomas; Mainwaring, Marion

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504059867 ISBN 13: 9781504059862

Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2020

Synopsis

Stories that pay tribute to Rex Stout’s legendary private detective by Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Goldsborough, and more.
 
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have been widely flattered almost from the moment Rex Stout first wrote about them in 1934. The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe collects two dozen literary tributes to one of crime fiction’s best-loved private detectives and his Man Friday. Included are:

• A 1947 pastiche by award-winning crime writer Thomas Narcejac
• Rollicking new stories written especially for this collection by Michael Bracken and Robert Lopresti
• Stories by bestselling authors including Lawrence Block and Loren D. Estleman
• Chapters from Robert Goldsborough’s authorized continuation of the Wolfe series; Marion Mainwaring’s 1955 tour de force Murder in Pastiche; and John Lescroart’s Rasputin’s Revenge, which reimagines a young Wolfe as the son of Sherlock Holmes

Also featuring a reminiscence from Rex Stout’s daughter, this is a treasury of witty and suspenseful crime writing for every fan of the portly private detective.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Josh Pachter was born in 1951 in New York. He earned a BA and an MA, both in Speech, at the University of Michigan. After teaching high school for three years in Michigan and college for two years in Pennsylvania, he moved overseas in 1979 and began offering a wide range of courses for the University of Maryland’s European Division on American Army, Navy, and Air Force bases in England, Germany, Holland, Greece, Spain, Bahrain, and Pakistan. He moved back to the United States in 1991, and taught at Cuyahoga Community College (where he also advised the student newspaper) and Ashland University, both in northeast Ohio, until the spring of 2006. That fall, he took a full-time position in the communication department at the Prince Frederick campus of the College of Southern Maryland. In March of 2007, the campus’ student association named him one of the two winners of its “Peace Prize” for innovative teaching and dedication to education. In the fall of 2011, he accepted a full-time position as a member of the Communication Studies and Theater faculty at Northern Virginia Community College's Loudoun Campus, and today he continues to teach full-time at NOVA-Loudoun. He also regularly volunteers at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, where he teaches classes in film, literature, and communication.
 

Review:

Praise for The Misadventures of Ellery Queen edited by Josh Pachter
“Ellery Queen lives again in this delightful collection.” —Janet Hutchings, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine editor
 
“The Maestro of Detection is back in a delightful series of pastiches, parodies, and other works. Long may the Queen reign!” —Jeffrey Marks, Ellery Queen biographer

Praise for Robert Goldsborough’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries
 “A virtually perfect homage to the Rex Stout originals, from the orchids to the beer to the gourmet food and, best of all, to Archie’s bemused, self-deprecating narration. Comfort food for fans of classic mysteries.” —Booklist on Murder, Stage Left
  
“Goldsborough does a nice job of shaking up the status quo in his 13th Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin pastiche.” —Publishers Weekly on The Battered Badge
 
 “A loving, knowledgeable, mightily pleasing recreation.” —Kirkus Reviews on Murder in E Minor

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1504059867
• ISBN 13: 9781504059862
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: PACHTER JOSH