{"id":22516,"date":"2019-08-29T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=22516"},"modified":"2019-08-25T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T16:32:08","slug":"rex-stouts-nero-wolfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=22516","title":{"rendered":"Rex Stout&#8217;s Nero Wolfe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2019\/z082919rexstout.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"524\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;ve never read a Rex Stout Nero Wolfe story, you should.\u00a0 You&#8217;d be in for a treat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stout did something unique: he married the British Golden Age, puzzle-solving school of mystery fiction with the street-smart, hardboiled, thoroughly American detective novels of Chandler and Hammett to come up with a seamless blend of thought and action, narrated in a prose that was unfailingly literate, witty, and engaging.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stout&#8217;s Nero Wolfe stories are entertaining with just the right mix of action, mystery and humor.\u00a0 Neil Nyren (who I quoted above) provides an in-depth look at Stout and his stories at Crime Reads.\u00a0 Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/crimereads.com\/rex-stout-a-crime-readers-guide-to-the-classics\/\">Rex Stout: A Crime Reader&#8217;s Guide to the Classics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never read a Rex Stout Nero Wolfe story, you should.\u00a0 You&#8217;d be in for a treat.\u00a0 Stout did<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22517,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516\/revisions\/22517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}