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The Second Confession
The Second Confession is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1949. The story was also collected in other omnibus volumes, including "Triple Zeck" (Viking 1974). This is the second of three Nero Wolfe novels that involve crime boss Arnold Zeck – Wolfe's Moriarty. In this novel he telephones Wolfe to warn him off an investigation and retaliates when Wolfe refuses to cooperate. Though the crime is solved, the ending is left open.
Plot
Harry Foster in "Fer-de-Lance".
In "The Second Confession "(chapter 19), Archie says Lon had risen to "second in command at the Gazette's city desk," and by "A Right to Die" (chapter 5) he is "confidential assistant to the publisher of the Gazette." Lon's role at the New York "Gazette" is not further detailed in the Rex Stout stories, and in fact, in later books Archie explicitly states that he is not