I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT WHEN WOLFE USES FIRST PERSON TO TALK ABOUT WHAT KILLERS DID/SAID. So much that it warrants all capslock! I like the parallel it creates between Wolfe and the killer. I think Wolfe has incredible potential for violence and/or crime.
Potential, hell! *Is* there a book where Wolfe manages to earn a fee without committing a crime (or ordering Archie to do so) in the process? (And then there's all those times where he pressures/nudges the killer into suicide...) Yeah, I don't think he'd understand crimes (esp. of passion) so well unless he had that potential & a dark history to go along with it. (In "Nero Wolfe of West 35th St" Baring-Gould theorizes that Wolfe murdered a woman-- his wife?-- in Montenegro before his final return to the U.S., and I have to admit I was thinking along those lines myself, although I also bet that if that happened, spying/international politics was probably mixed up in it as well...)
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I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT WHEN WOLFE USES FIRST PERSON TO TALK ABOUT WHAT KILLERS DID/SAID. So much that it warrants all capslock! I like the parallel it creates between Wolfe and the killer. I think Wolfe has incredible potential for violence and/or crime.
Potential, hell! *Is* there a book where Wolfe manages to earn a fee without committing a crime (or ordering Archie to do so) in the process? (And then there's all those times where he pressures/nudges the killer into suicide...) Yeah, I don't think he'd understand crimes (esp. of passion) so well unless he had that potential & a dark history to go along with it. (In "Nero Wolfe of West 35th St" Baring-Gould theorizes that Wolfe murdered a woman-- his wife?-- in Montenegro before his final return to the U.S., and I have to admit I was thinking along those lines myself, although I also bet that if that happened, spying/international politics was probably mixed up in it as well...)