The Final Deduction [SEP] publisher
The Final Deduction
The Final Deduction is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1961 and collected in the omnibus volume "Three Aces" (Viking 1971).
Plot summary.
Mrs. Althea Vail tells Wolfe she intends to pay the half-a-million-dollar ransom to the kidnappers, but she wants him to be certain she gets her husband Jimmy back alive and in one piece.
The unfamiliar word.
"I work for Nero Wolfe," Archie
takes refuge in a nearby leper sanctuary. . . while Brother Cadfael is hard at work uncovering the real killer (who has now also dispatched Picard). Complete with a dramatic public confrontation and a final bit of Cadfael deduction: another Peters delight, featuring vital characters, a beautifully organised puzzle, and history made real.
Pub Date: May 12th, 1982
Publisher: Morrow.
"Publishers Weekly" reviewed a 1991 audio book of this and the prior novel in the series in one article, liking the