I’ve been reading this book on my phone while waiting for things over the past month or so. So not very concentrated reading but…
… this book really isn’t very good, is it? It’s a collection of three short stories, and while I haven’t read many books by Rex Stout, the condensed form seems to bring out all of Stout’s most annoying tics? By the end of the third story, I found myself skipping past the unfunny hard boiled repartee.
I think I’ll give Stout one more go, but with a novel instead. From the 40s, perhaps?
Three at Wolfe’s Door (1960) by Rex Stout (buy used, 4.1 on Goodreads)