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Word: nero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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WHERE THERE'S A WILL - Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). April, May and June Hawthorne, three weird sisters, take the woes of their brother's will to lazy, orchid-loving Nero Wolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: June Murders | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...unruffled husband, to prove to his wife that there was no danger, tuned in another radio station with music on. Humphed his wife: "Nero fiddled while Rome burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Anatomy of a Panic | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

OVER MY DEAD BODY-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nero Wolfe, who once fought in the Montenegrin Army, has a bit of a time with Balkan intrigue and a couple of quaintly accented lovelies named Lovchen and Tormic. One of them is probably his daughter; either might have murdered one of the fencers at a Manhattan salle d'armes. Archie Goodwin does all the work hvala Bogu (thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in January | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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