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Plot It Yourself
Plot It Yourself (British title "Murder in Style") is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1959, and also collected in the omnibus volume "Kings Full of Aces" (Viking 1969).
Plot introduction.
A group of authors and publishers hires Nero Wolfe to investigate a series of plagiarism claims. Wolfe, by his own admission, bungles the investigation so badly that three murders result.
In "Plot It Yourself", Stout
Speaker", "Too Many Women", "Murder by the Book", "Before Midnight", "Plot It Yourself", "Too Many Clients", "The Doorbell Rang", and "Death of a Doxy", which are for me the best of all the full-length Wolfe novels.
- J. Kenneth Van Dover, "At Wolfe's Door" — Wolfe's return to the novel-length mystery is a strong one: the plot is solid and the characters — especially Phoebe