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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good fit,
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This review is from: The Hand in the Glove (Audio Editions Mystery Masters) (Audio Cassette)
High-pitched and grating? We can't disagree with the one-star reviewer more. The voices are consistent and carefully chosen. We listened to this book while painting an apartment and found it thoroughly absorbing and well produced. We can't claim to own 30 unabridged Stout mysteries with which to compare this, but we can claim to know strong female characters strongly portrayed. Having listened to stories by writers such as Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton, we think this performance ranks. It's consistent throughout, intelligently performed, and completely satisfying.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Introducing Dol Bonner,
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This review is from: Hand in the Glove, The (Mass Market Paperback)
From time to time Nero Wolfe and Archie realized that they needed a female operative to help solve a case. They always hired the best, Dol Bonner, who had her own private detective agency. In this novel, for the first and only time, the focus is on Dol and describes how she came to be in this most unusual occupation.Before the novel opens Dol had been a happy young woman, her father was wealthy, she was engaged to be married and then things began to go wrong. First her father lost his fortune, then killed himself, then her fiance left her and Dol was faced with the necessity of fending for herself. She considered her prospects and decided on the highly unusual occupation of private detective. As the novel opens Dol's business partner and friend is being pressured by her guardian to disassociate herself with the agency. Soon Dol finds herself without a partner but with the guardian as a client, at least for a short time. Before the final pages the body count has risen but Dol has been one step ahead of the police to solve the crimes. THE HAND IN THE GLOVE was originally published in 1937 and the only novel featuring Dol although she appears from time to time in Nero Wolfe adventures. Stout's style is evident here, the characters are well defined, the problem is clever and complex but the snappy banter that marks the Nero Wolfe stories is missing. Another deviation from the Nero Wolfe novels is that the story is not told just from one point of view but jumps from Dol to her friend Sylvia's and others which is a bit confusing for the reader at times. Although this is not quite as good as the Nero Wolfe stories it is interesting for Wolfe fans to learn a bit more one of the few women in Wolfe's life.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Sad deviation for Nero Wolfe,
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This review is from: Hand in the Glove, The (Mass Market Paperback)
Proof that even the best writers don't write winners every time. I have read all of the Rex Stout works that remain in print, and this was the first time that I had to force myself to complete one. As was noted in another review, this seemed to be an experiment that didn't quite work. Kind of like a great French chef trying his hand at a complex Indian curry or Mexican mole. Mr. Stout was best when he stuck with his tried and true voice and characters, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.
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