![]() Too Many Cooks is set at a spa in the American South, where some of the greatest chefs in the world have gathered. We went through the same sort of debate a few years back with sanitized versions of Mark Twain works, and that didn’t seem to go so well. It made me wonder how best to deal with this issue. The next surprise was not so positive: I found it hard to deal with all the careless prejudice that features in Stout’s fiction, and was a significant part of the period during which he lived and wrote (1886-1975). Even though I’d probably read them both before (in fact, I’m sure I read Champagne at some other point in the past), I was engrossed. My first surprise was that these tales stood up well, despite the passage of so much time. ![]() One of the stories in this paperback, Cooks, was originally published in 1938 the other saw print 20 years later. ![]() Like most mystery-fiction fans, I’d read plenty of Nero Wolfe stories in years past, and was ready to become reacquainted. But I finally took it with me on a recent trip. ![]() One of those - comprising both Too Many Cooks and Champagne for One - had been sitting on my shelf, unread, for a couple of years. Mysteries in rather handsome two-in-one paperback volumes. In 20, Bantam Books reprinted 10 of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin ![]()
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