New Releases by Robert Goldsborough

When a loudmouthed, arrogant author is silenced, the reclusive master detective Nero Wolfe looks for the killer: “A very clever mystery . . . A masterly job” (Booklist). The gun was fired close to Charles Childress’s head, and his were the only fingerprints on it, forcing the police to conclude that the author committed suicide. But his friends know this is impossible, because Childress loved himself far too much. He had just begun attracting fame, writing new mysteries starring the iconic Sergeant Barnstable, and he had bright hopes for the future. His publisher hires corpulent genius Nero Wolfe to determine who cut Childress’s career short, and the detective finds no dearth of suspects. Among the many who may have wanted the wordsmith whacked are his agent, his editor, a corrupt book reviewer, and an enraged legion of Barnstable devotees. With the help of his indefatigable assistant, Archie Goodwin, Wolfe takes a look at those closest to the arrogant, argumentative author, hoping to decide which of Childress’s associates merely hated him, and which would have been willing to kill.

An “excellent” novel that goes back to 1920s New York to reveal how the famed detective first met his incomparable sidekick (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In 1930, young Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks—with a pair of hot lead slugs. Dismissed from his job for being “trigger-happy,” he parlays his newfound notoriety into a job as a detective’s assistant, helping honest sleuth Del Bascom solve cases like the Morningside Piano Heist, the Rive Gauche Art Gallery Swindle, and the Sumner-Hayes Burglary. But it’s the kidnapping of Tommie Williamson, the son of a New York hotel magnate, that introduces Goodwin to the man who will change his life. Goodwin knows there’s only one detective who can help find Tommie: Nero Wolfe, the stout genius of West Thirty-Fifth Street. Together, they’ll form one of the most unlikely crime fighting duos in history—but first Goodwin must locate Tommie and prove that he deserves a place by Wolfe’s side. In this witty story about the origin of a legendary partnership, Robert Goldsborough gloriously evokes the spirit of Nero Wolfe’s creator, bestselling author Rex Stout, and breathes new life into his beloved characters.

A soda war explodes into murder for Nero Wolfe, “one of the two or three most beloved detectives in fiction” (Publishers Weekly). For the men of Madison Avenue, the battle between soft-drink giants Cherr-o-key and AmeriCherry seems heaven sent. For years now, the firm of Mills/Lake/Ryman has fought to help Cherr-o-key become the nation’s favorite fizzy cherry soda, but each time they come up with a new slogan, mascot, or jingle, AmeriCherry somehow beats them to it. There''s a mole inside the agency, and only Nero Wolfe can ferret him out. Although he''s as round as a cherry himself, Wolfe has no taste for soft drinks. But the question of industrial espionage is too sweet for him to resist, and so with assistant Archie Goodwin at his side, he sets out to end this vicious corporate feud. Only when the first adman dies does he realize that a marketing war can be just as dangerous as the real thing.

Le philharmonique de New York est devenu silencieux. Son chef d''orchestre a été assassiné froidement par un de ses proches. Et pourtant, les regrets sont loin d''être éternels... Peu appréciaient le caractère despotique de cet homme, peu soucieux de froisser la susceptibilité de ses collaborateurs. Malheureusement pour le meurtrier, la victime était une connaissance de Nero Wolfe, le plus grand détective de New York. Qui plus est, Wolfe lui devait la vie. Maintenant que la mort les a séparés, " l''homme aux orchidées " ne peut faire moins que de confondre le coupable. Et le lecteur de découvrir que la haine et la rancœur, même au sein d''un prestigieux philharmonique, peuvent donner naissance à des pulsions inavouables. Peuvent pousser quelqu''un au meurtre. Et s''il ne le savait pas encore, " L''homme aux orchidées " découvrira que le passé ne meurt jamais, et que la vengeance se moque bien des rides.

Crain''s arrival in Chicago in 1916 with, "only a few thousand dollars in capital and a great deal of optimism," this book chronicles Crain''s first successes in trade magazine publishing, building up to the birth of what was to become the Company''s flagship publication, Advertising Age. From the launch of Ad Age at the onset of the Depression, through the stormy years of World War II, and into the postwar economic boom, this book shows how, buoyed by G. D. Crain''s boundless enthusiasm and sound business acumen, the magazine survived and prospered to become the international newspaper of marketing.

Goldsborough, a member of the Continental Congress, discusses the alteration of [Minshall''s?] deed with Ridley, a merchant in Baltimore (possibly the manager of the Maryland branch of the London mercantile firm of Stewart and Campbell). States that he has been unable to collect money from various persons who owing for the transaction. Apologizes for not being able to gather the money, stating that his failure was due to family illness and business in the courts. Hopes to collect the money in the course of the following week, and promises to send messengers by ship regarding the transaction. Promises to discuss the present politics in a following letter. Reports that a vessel recently arrived in Philadelphia carrying officers, and the Philadelphians have been so uncivil as to make prisoners of them- Death, Desertion, and a general Dissatisfaction, amounting at most to Mutiny among them, is, I suppose no news to you ...

Legal indenture for title to a tract of land.