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Please Pass the Guilt
Please Pass the Guilt is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1973. Unusually for a Nero Wolfe story, which mostly take place very near the time of publication, this novel is set in 1969, though it was originally published in 1973.
Plot introduction.
As a favor to Dr. Edwin Vollmer, Wolfe agrees to find information about a case from Vollmer's friend's crisis intervention center. A man with the alias "Ronald Seaver" has
and by George Plimpton in "Death of a Doxy" and "Murder is Corny."
- Edwin A. "Doc" Vollmer — A medical doctor who is Wolfe's neighbor and occasional confidante. In the novel "The Silent Speaker", Vollmer certifies an illness severe enough that Wolfe cannot be interrogated by the police. In the novel "Please Pass the Guilt", Wolfe and Goodwin become involved in a murder case by doing a favor for Vollmer and his friend Irwin Ostrow, who runs a crisis intervention