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Bookmarking passages which speak to characterization and the relationships between the important characters is helpful, I find, when there's so much canon to get through. Possibly by stretching it out more I could make it all stay distinct better, but when I finish one book and immediately pick up the next one, they'll all run together in my head if I don't do something about it.
(And this is a really great thing about ebooks, isn't it? I can send each bookmark to the notepad, tag them, and then export the tagged notes to a Google Doc.)
So Rex Stout has written 40+ Nero Wolfe books; and #22, The Black Mountain, is a unique milestone where they make a pilgrimage to Montenegro and do some James Bond type stuff, while the typical books take place exclusively around NYC and the most salient feature of the sleuth is his refusal to leave his house in order to investigate things. (Agatha Christie wrote one Poirot story, "The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim" [incidentally it's also the Poirot remix of the classic Sherlock Holmes story "The Man with the Twisted Lip"; I love when they do that], in which Poirot stays home and solves the case sight unseen in order to win a bet with my bunny's namesake, Chief Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard. It makes for a fantastic episode of the show; but it's certainly a novelty in the detective genre, with Hastings sallying forth with his little notebook and lists of questions and tasks which he has to bring back and report carefully. Fortunately for Wolfe, Archie Goodwin is an excellent detective in his own right with a number of specialized skills.)
This collection is therefore made on the basis of the first half of Nero Wolfe canon, and is arranged more or less topically rather than chronologically.
Wolfe & Archie:
( Confidential Secretary )
( 'Being Sweet' )
Characters:
( 1. Nero Wolfe )
( 1a. Wolfe making out with Lily Rowan in In the Best Families is the most 'Touch-Repulsed Acespec Queer Making Out with Their Queerplatonic Soulmate Partner's Girlfriend/BFF' thing that has ever happened )
( 2. Archie Goodwin )
( 2a. The reason Archie isn't bi (or pan) is that people didn't know about bisexuality )
( 3. Saul )
( 4. Fritz )
( 5. Cramer & other cops )
(And this is a really great thing about ebooks, isn't it? I can send each bookmark to the notepad, tag them, and then export the tagged notes to a Google Doc.)
So Rex Stout has written 40+ Nero Wolfe books; and #22, The Black Mountain, is a unique milestone where they make a pilgrimage to Montenegro and do some James Bond type stuff, while the typical books take place exclusively around NYC and the most salient feature of the sleuth is his refusal to leave his house in order to investigate things. (Agatha Christie wrote one Poirot story, "The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim" [incidentally it's also the Poirot remix of the classic Sherlock Holmes story "The Man with the Twisted Lip"; I love when they do that], in which Poirot stays home and solves the case sight unseen in order to win a bet with my bunny's namesake, Chief Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard. It makes for a fantastic episode of the show; but it's certainly a novelty in the detective genre, with Hastings sallying forth with his little notebook and lists of questions and tasks which he has to bring back and report carefully. Fortunately for Wolfe, Archie Goodwin is an excellent detective in his own right with a number of specialized skills.)
This collection is therefore made on the basis of the first half of Nero Wolfe canon, and is arranged more or less topically rather than chronologically.
( Confidential Secretary )
( 'Being Sweet' )
( 1. Nero Wolfe )
( 1a. Wolfe making out with Lily Rowan in In the Best Families is the most 'Touch-Repulsed Acespec Queer Making Out with Their Queerplatonic Soulmate Partner's Girlfriend/BFF' thing that has ever happened )
( 2. Archie Goodwin )
( 2a. The reason Archie isn't bi (or pan) is that people didn't know about bisexuality )
( 3. Saul )
( 4. Fritz )
( 5. Cramer & other cops )
