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Archie Goodwin is not overly fond of Theodore Horstmann, who takes care of the orchids on the rooftop of Nero Wolfe's West Thirty-Fifth Street brownstone. But as loyal assistant to the legendary private detective, Archie will put his animosity aside when the surly orchid-keeper stumbles through the front door beaten within an inch of his life. While the gardener lies in a coma, Nero sends Archie to poke around his apartment near the river. The place is neatly kept, if not quite as elegant as the brownstone, but across the street on Tenth Avenue Archie quickly discovers the longshoremen's watering hole in whose back room Horstmann has been playing a lot of bridge lately. The smoky tavern is packed with tough dockworkers and recent European immigrants, and Archie does his best to blend in, filling the victim's empty seat in his running card game, as he attempts to learn what sort of shady business might have led to attempted murder. But when one of his new bridge partners is killed, Archie finds himself caught up in something much bigger than a bar fight ... Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The plot of Trouble at the Brownstone revolves around Theodore, yes, but he's pretty much offstage. He appears at the very beginning, when he arrives on the stoop of the brownstone having been badly beaten and bleeding (we learn later that he had moved out and into his own apartment some months earlier). He promptly lapses into a coma and conveniently remains so until the case is solved, when he is miraculously revived and returns to work and live in Wolfe's house.
Of course, Wolfe is insulted by the notion that one of his employees has been assaulted (you should have seen how mad he got when not one, but two, women got strangled in his office in separate books of the original series) and he vows to find the culprits. This involves Archie going undercover as Theodore's nephew at the apartment building where he had recently moved, which appears to be filled with a bunch of mute weirdos. There's also some action down on the docks, and any accounts of extralegal activity by longshoreman are always welcomed by this longshoreman's daughter and granddaughter.
When Goldsborough first took up the writing of the Nero Wolfe series (with the full blessing of Rex Stout's estate) in 1986, it had been about a decade since the last book Stout wrote. Goldsborough attempted to re-imagine Archie and Wolfe and the rest of the crew in the modern world, with a desktop computer instead of a clackety manual typewriter and various other technological updates. It didn't really work; they felt like crude parodies of themselves. Lately he's begun setting the books in the past, during Wolfe's heyday of the 1940s-1960s, and while the dialogue's still a bit stiff and you never forget you're reading someone else's interpretation of beloved characters, the plots are fine and the books are more enjoyable to read. I never read series continuations, and it's a measure of my love for Archie (and the rest) that I have stuck with this one. You could find worse ways to spend your time, but temper your expectations accordingly. ( )