![]() ![]() This is followed by the murder of two more of the plagiarists. The next day Archie goes to make the offer but finds Sergeant Purley Stebbins at the apartment. This he says is based on aspects such as diction, punctuation, syntax and paragraphing.Ī committee member suggests that one of the plagiarists be offered money, along with a guarantee of immunity, to identify the author of the manuscripts. Wolfe fans know that he is an avid reader and after reading all the manuscripts he concludes that they were all written by the same person. ![]() His first step is to gather all the manuscripts. There are four different claims that Wolfe is hired to investigate. ![]() These claims have damaged both the publishers and the authors and the committee wants Wolfe's help in stopping the fraud. The plagiarists plant evidence to back up their claims. "Plagiarism upside down" as Wolfe puts it. In these cases the plagiarists are claiming that the well-known authors are stealing from them. The Book Publishers of America (BPA) and the National Association of Authors and Dramatists (NAAD) form a joint committee and hire Wolfe to investigate claims of plagiarism. Published in 1959 this is the 32nd book in the series. Someday someone may read this review and this will be history. As I write this review we are in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() A visit with Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin at Wolfe's brownstone on West Thirty-Fifth Street is always a treat. ![]()
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