Over My Dead Body is the seventh Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. The story first appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine (September 1939). The novel was published in 1940 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
"I'm resigning as of this moment."
"Resigning from what?"
"You. My job."
"Rubbish."
"No, boss, really. You told the G-man you have never married. Yet you have a daughter. Well — " I shrugged. "I'm not a prude, but there are limits —...
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Over My Dead Body is the seventh Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. The story first appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine (September 1939). The novel was published in 1940 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
"I'm resigning as of this moment."
"Resigning from what?"
"You. My job."
"Rubbish."
"No, boss, really. You told the G-man you have never married. Yet you have a daughter. Well — " I shrugged. "I'm not a prude, but there are limits —"
– A scandalized Archie ragging Wolfe, in Over My Dead Body, chapter 2
When a Montenegrin female comes to the brownstone to ask for help, a minor rumpus about stolen diamonds at a fashionable fencing academy quickly develops into international intrigue and murder. Nero Wolfe's long buried and jealously guarded past comes to light.
In Over My Dead Body Rex Stout begins to explore Wolfe's Montenegrin background. By 1939, of course, the Wolfe/Goodwin books had become an established series but Wolfe's youth had yet to be clarified. Stout starts...
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