Nero Wolfe: Death of a Doxy, The Father Hunt, Death of a Dude (+)

[cimorene]

[T]here was nothing that absolutely had to be said, and we said it.

It’s enough to wear a man out, helping to decide what to do with a couple of billion dollars’ worth of other people’s money.

"There is no visible reason for you to be glad you came."

• A hotel manager doesn’t like it if a guest tells him she wants to post a guard outside her door because she expects to be murdered.


• "Evidently the one thing you and Nero can’t stand is for anybody to tell a cop anything."

—Death of a Doxy


• Usually they have asked for it one way or another, and anyhow if you can’t stand the sight of a fish flopping on the gaff you shouldn’t go fishing.

—Three at Wolfe's Door


• No working detective ever detected less in nine straight hours than I did that Monday.


• [T]here was nothing that absolutely had to be said, and we said it.

—And Four to Go


• The letters and other papers, a washout. If we fed them to a computer I would expect it to come up with something like SO WHAT or TELL IT TO THE MARINES.


• It’s enough to wear a man out, helping to decide what to do with a couple of billion dollars’ worth of other people’s money.


• "You’ll clown while they’re embalming you."

—The Father Hunt


• "There is no visible reason for you to be glad you came."


• "You might as well tell a man with no legs that you don’t challenge his right to walk."


• They needed to have their noses pushed in, and I considered three or four possible ways of taking a stab at it[...], but none of them was good enough.

—Death of a Dude