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Robert Goldsborough
Full Series List in Order
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
1 - Murder in E Minor (Mar-1986)2 - Death on Deadline (Apr-1987)
3 - Bloodied Ivy (Jul-1988)
4 - Last Coincidence (Nov-1989)
5 - Fade to Black (Oct-1990)
6 - Silver Spire (Oct-1992)
7 - The Missing Chapter (Dec-1993)
8 - Archie Meets Nero Wolfe (Jan-2012)
9 - Murder in the Ball Park (Feb-2014)
10 - Archie in the Crosshairs (Mar-2015)
11 - Stop the Presses! (Mar-2016)
12 - Murder, Stage Left (Mar-2017)
13 - The Battered Badge (Apr-2018)
14 - Death of an Art Collector (May-2019)
15 - Archie Goes Home (May-2020)
16 - Trouble at the Brownstone (Jun-2021)
17 - The Missing Heiress (Jun-2023)
A Snap Malek Mystery
1 - Three Strikes You're Dead (May-2005)2 - Shadow of the Bomb (Sep-2006)
3 - A Death in Pilsen (Oct-2007)
4 - A President in Peril (Jan-2009)
5 - Terror at the Fair (Apr-2011)
6 - Stairway to Nowhere (Nov-2017)
Book List in Order: 24 titles
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Murder in E Minor
- Mar-1986
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When a maestro is murdered, Archie is flabbergasted when the gargantuan gourmet detective lifts himself out of retirement, amid a juicy public scandal, Wolfe and Archie feast on suspects yet starved for facts, until the scanty clues finally arrange t...
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Death on Deadline
- Apr-1987
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The first corpse is slated to be a newspaper. If Ian MacLaren, sleazy king of Britain's scandal sheets, succeeds in taking over the Gazette, this respectable publication will die. Archie Goodwin is astonished when Nero Wolfe decides to stop him. But ...
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Bloodied Ivy
- Jul-1988
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He was a man a lot of people hated, even in death. He was Hale Markham, a professor at an upstate New York College, a man infamous for his poisonous jealousy, backstabbing, and character assassination. His death is graded accidental. As Archie pokes ...
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Last Coincidence
- Nov-1989
- / Private Investigator
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Playboy Sparky Linville has a nasty notion of fun and games. But when he picks popular Noreen James as his unwilling playmate, the result is murder - and a case that rocks Manhattan's trendy Upper East Side and divides the family of Lily Rowan, Noree...
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Fade to Black
- Oct-1990
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Whether it's a case of soda or a case if industrial espionage, soft drinks have never been Nero Wolfe's cup of tea. So only with great reluctance - and considerable prodding from Archie Goodwin - does the legendary sleuth agree to investigate the app...
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Silver Spire
- Oct-1992
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The Reverend Barnabas Bay, world-famous televangelist, has been receiving bad tidings from the Good Book: a series of threatening notes lifted from Bible verses and placed in the collection plate on six consecutive Sundays. Nero Wolfe refuses to take...
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The Missing Chapter
- Dec-1993
- / Private Investigator
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Robert Goldsborough returns with his seventh stunning Nero Wolfe novel. Follow along into Wolfe's famed West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone, where the corpulent orchid-tending genius devours meals, books, and murderers with a passion - and where this...
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Three Strikes You're Dead
- May-2005
- / Historical Mystery
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In this depression-era noir series debut, a politician’s murder leads a Chicago crime reporter to a conspiracy involving the Cubs’ race for the pennant.Chicago, 1938. A new mayoral candidate runs on a promise to stomp out organized crime. When he...
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Shadow of the Bomb
- Sep-2006
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As the US enters WWII, a series of murders at the University of Chicago threatens a top-secret military research project in this historical noir.Against the ominous backdrop of America’s entry into World War II, the navy still reels from the devast...
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A Death in Pilsen
- Oct-2007
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1946, the first post-World War II year, finds Tribune police reporter Snap Malek hip deep in a murder case. Someone has stabbed his cousin's British war bride to death in their Bohemian neighborhood home in Pilsen. As the prime suspect, the meek and ...
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A President in Peril
- Jan-2009
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A Chicago crime reporter is out to stop a local hate group from assassinating President Truman in this historical crime thriller.Chicago, 1948. As President Harry Truman prepares to visit Chicago in the final tense days of his reelection campaign, po...
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Terror at the Fair
- Apr-2011
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A reporter’s routine assignment turns deadly when a serial killer stalks the Chicago Railroad Fair in this historical noir thriller.It’s the summer of 1949, and Chicago Tribune reporter Steve “Snap” Malek has been assigned to cover the Chicag...
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Archie Meets Nero Wolfe
- Jan-2012
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To become part of the Nero Wolfe legend, Archie Goodwin must prove his worth Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks -- with a pair ...
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Murder in the Ball Park
- Feb-2014
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Wolfe earns a big league call-up after a senator gets taken out at the ball game Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. The national anthem is ...
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Archie in the Crosshairs
- Mar-2015
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When Archie Goodwin’s life is threatened, Wolfe must find the gunman or lose his right-hand man Archie Goodwin is chipper as he strolls home from his weekly poker game, money in his pocket and a smile on his lips. He has just reached Nero Wolfe...
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Stop the Presses!
- Mar-2016
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Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are tasked with protecting the most hated columnist in New York City There are few people Nero Wolfe respects, and Lon Cohen of the New York Gazette is one of them. So when Cohen asks for a favor, the famously brillia...
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Murder, Stage Left
- Mar-2017
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It’s curtains for a famous Broadway director, and private investigator Nero Wolfe is on the case -- but his assistant, Archie Goodwin, is a suspect. When a renowned theater director senses something amiss during his latest production, he calls i...
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Stairway to Nowhere
- Nov-2017
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Chicago Tribune police reporter Steve "Snap" Malek is one of the newspaper's best feature writers, and now it looks like one of his well-crafted feature stories might come back to bite him. Malek had, at one time, turned out a laudatory piece about t...
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The Battered Badge
- Apr-2018
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A shake-up in the NYPD homicide squad following a high-profile murder is bad for business for private investigator Nero Wolfe. When wealthy and popular crusader and reformer Lester Pierce is gunned down in front of his Park Avenue residence, the ...
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Death of an Art Collector
- May-2019
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An art hoarder’s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe. No matter how fabulously he’s being courted, infamously dour “art hog” Arthur Wordell isn’t keen on favoring the new Guggenheim Museum with his extensive collection. E...
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Archie Goes Home
- May-2020
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Archie Goodwin leaves Manhattan for the Midwest to find out who put a bullet into a banker. Archie Goodwin’s aunt Edna is about to lure him away from his work at Nero Wolfe’s New York brownstone. After a phone call, he heads off to Ohio, where th...
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Trouble at the Brownstone
- Jun-2021
- / Police Procedural
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Archie Goodwin goes undercover on the waterfront in a new mystery by the author who “does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy” (Booklist). Archie Goodwin is not overly fond of Theodore Horstmann, who takes care of the orchids on the rooft...
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The Missing Heiress
- Jun-2023
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The daughter of a steel magnate disappears, and Nero and Archie must forge ahead with an investigation in this new mystery from the award"winning author. Archie Goodwin’s very good friend, Lily Rowan, spends much of her time -- and conside...
Award-Winning Books by Robert Goldsborough
1986 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel