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By Dave, May 31, 2009 11:58 am

This book is for sale at: http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/depatty/items/Black_Orchids___By_Rex_Stout_1992_Reissue_4th_Printing

Black Orchids – June 1992 Bantam Reissue
Copyright 1941 and 1942 By Rex Stout
A Bantam Book
Bantam Reissue… June 1992
This is a 4th printing.
Creasing to spine and front cover. Some corner and edge bumping. Inside covers browning. Pages tight. Some corners turned. No stamps or markings. Good copy.

Contents
Introduction by Lawrence Block
Black Orchids
Cordially Invited To Meet Death

Rear Cover Intro:

BLACK ORCHIDS

Nero Wolfe has left his comfortable brownstone for the promise of a remarkably black orchid at a flower show — but before Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, have a chance to stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder takes place right under their noses and puts a blight on the proceedings. Now Wolfe’s fancy turns to thoughts of weeding out a murderer — one who’s definitely not a garden-variety killer. Only then will Wolfe be ready to throw his weight into a second thorny case, involving a rich society widow bedeviled by poison-pen letters — and a poisonous plot as black as Wolfe’s orchids… with roots that are even more twisted.

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By Dave,

This book is for sale at: http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/depatty/items/Salute_The_Toff___By_John_Creasey

Salute The Toff – By John Creasey
Award Books # AN1212
Cover Price 95¢
Copyright and first printing 1971 – This appears to be the first paperback printing 1973

Some staining to cover. Some creasing on spine and back cover. Spine leans. Pages browning and some corner creasing but tight. Good reading copy.

Rear Cover:

She was young, beautiful, and she was standing unannounced in the doorway of the Hon. Richard Rollison’s study. Her name was Fay and she’d come to the Toff for help – her employer was missing. She was afraid to go to the police.

He was thirtyish, handsome, and very dead sprawled across the floor of a Grey Street flat. His identification said he was Mr. Draycott, Fay’s missing employer. But a half hour later, Mr. Draycott phoned a business associate.

In a super detective mystery, the Hon. Richard Rollison – also known as the Toff – is faced with the impossible task of searching out a murderer and his victim.

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By Dave, May 20, 2009 11:01 pm

This book for sale at: http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/depatty/items/Green_Light_For_Death___By_Frank_Kane

Green Light For Death – By Frank Kane
Dell Books. Good+ 1949. Softcover. Copyright 1949, later printing. Dell 918. Light creasing to cover and spine, interior pages clean & tight, age tanning to pages, darker at the top. Some pages folded over.

Rear Cover Text:

She was a gorgeous, and mysterious, girl from New York, who had taken a low-paying job in a small-town night club.

When they fished her out of the local river, she had nothing on. It didn’t matter, she was past caring.

Johnny Liddell cared, though. The girl was his client and it didn’t make sense. Why would she strip, pile her clothes neatly on the pier, and then take the plunge.

A waste, Liddell thought mournfully. A great waste.

Then he cheered up. Any case that began with a killer and a naked woman was bound to produce more of the same….

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By Dave,

This book is for sale at: http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/depatty/items/Way_Of_A_Wanton___By_Richard_S__Prather

Way Of A Wanton – By Richard S. Prather
Gold Medal k1382
8th Printing January 1964

Covers show age spotting and staining. Cover coming unglued. Pages tight. Pages 71/72 and 115/116 corners turned down. Pages 121-144 have water staining top outside corner almost to spine and 2 inches down outside edge.

Front Cover Text:

“There was a fire in her eyes that was scorching me – me, Shell Scott, the private eye who couldn’t tell whether a dame wanted to kiss me, or kill me!”

Rear Cover Text:

Numbers Game

No matter how you look at it, 36-22-35 are magic numbers. They have a real message for me. I’m Shell Scott, the private eye, and I’m very good at figures. You might say I follow them very carefully. I’ve been following this one figure for several days and learned her name is Sherry. She looks as though she were designed by a sex fiend, and I hated to think she was mixed up in murder. It almost made me crawl back into my Shell. But somebody was planning to send me to my friendly neighborhood mortician and I had to find out who – or die trying.

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By Dave, May 13, 2009 4:10 pm

This item is for sale at: http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/depatty/items/The_Burglar_on_the_Prowl

Book Description: Harper Large Print Edition, 2004. Soft Cover.

Book Condition: Good, Ex-library copy with standard stamps and markings inside. Covers have been laminated with plastic. Some edge and corner bumping and page edge discoloration.

From the rear cover: Sophisticated yet down-to-earth, philosophical yet practical, Bernie is a gentleman who knows and loves his territory, the gloriously diverse and electric streets of Manhattan. He is minding his own business when he’s asked for a favor — a neat, uncomplicated bit of vengeful larceny that will reap a tidy profit — an offer the intrepid thief can’t refuse. But with a few days to go before the crime, Bernie gets restless. So what does a burglar do to change his mood? Go on the prowl, of course. This bit of prowling lands Bernie in a pile of trouble that includes four murders and the burglary of his own home. Caught in the center of a deadly mystery, Bernie must use his wits and wiles to connect the dots and add up the coincidences. Because if he doesn’t catch a killer, he’ll lose not only his freedom but his life.

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By Dave, May 12, 2009 1:56 pm

For sale at: Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine January 1967

Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine from January 1967. Back cover in bad shape. Some water discoloration on the pages. Pages brown and brittle. Cover coming loose at top of the spine. Front cover has previous owners name written in ink. Some pencil marks on at least one inside page. Some page corners folded over and damaged. Poor condition but still readable.
All books and magazines are shipped encased in plastic bags in protective cardboard enclosures.

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By Dave,

Went to the local Salvation Army yesterday (Monday May 11, 2009) and came home with a pile of mysteries including 9 paperbacks by Rex Stout and one hardback by Goldsborough. Will get them scanned and up for view asap. For now here are a couple of pictures of the lot to drool over…

Nero Wolfe and Red Threads Salvation Army finds

Assorted mysteries Salvation Army finds

Some of these will be put up for sale at Bonanzle. When I get them up I’ll post the page links here for anyone interested.

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By Dave, February 16, 2009 3:39 pm

Got to playing around with a theme that I am using over at another site and came up with a new one for the Wolfe site. Hope y’all like it.

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By Dave, January 13, 2009 2:03 pm

Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » The World’s Most Dangerous Bookstore

This link and post has nothing to do with Wolfe or Stout but is about a bookstore so is “kinda” on topic. For the most part The Bookman sounds like quite an interesting place. Wish I had known about it when I was out there a few years ago, I’d have loved to visit and browse. Considering this article was originally published in 1996 I suspect it’s long gone by now though…

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By Dave, January 12, 2009 12:44 pm

The Ortega Chronicles: The Wold Newton Universe

The Wold Newton Universe
On December 13, 1795, a meteorite fell from the sky and landed in Wold Newton, East Riding Yorkshire. Breadth was twenty eight inches, length was thirty six inches, and it’s weight was fifty-six pounds. This is historical fact.

Science Fiction author, Philip Jose Farmer, suggested that the meteor was radioactive. Two passing coaches were in the vicinity and the radiation caused genetic mutations in the people inside the coaches. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good, or, as the case may be, evil deeds. The descendants included Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarty, Doc Savage, one of his assistants, Monk Mayfair, The Shadow, G8, Phileas Fogg, Sir Denis Nayland Smith, Fu Manchu, The Avenger, The Spider, Nero Wolfe, Philip Marlow, Travis McGee, among others. Thus, The Wold Newton Family came to be.

Interesting concept. There is a bit more about this in the blog post this excerpt was taken from as well as a series of stories utilizing this concept on the site. Haven’t read any of them yet but am planning to asap.

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By Dave, December 31, 2008 11:23 am

Which we all know Wolfe wouldn’t allow in his house, much less on his table!

I seem to be getting a handle on it. Turns out that most of it isn’t comment spam but rather pingback and trackback spam caused by a high Google page rank. So I have turned that function off for all new posts and as spam is coming in I’m cutting it off on the posts that it links to. Hoping this takes care of it.

Now back to the regularly scheduled nonposting…

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By Dave, December 30, 2008 11:13 pm

Sorry to keep harping on this but it’s a problem that needs to be taken care of and asap. As I am still fighting the spam problem I got to looking at the Users list and noted that most had never posted anything. So I deleted just about all of them. There are a few that have been users for quite a while that actually put down names and some info that I left. The rest are now history. If you have registered on this site and try to log on and find that the user name/password no longer works, that’s why. If you register please make at least one post/comment so I’ll know that you are a real person and not a bot.

Thanks,
Dave

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By Dave,

Just deleted another 135 items marked spam. However before doing so went through them and checked the IP addresses and any that had more than one spam comment got put on the black hole list which I am posting below. If your IP address appears on this list then you most likely have a virus/adware/bot on your machine. If you have cleaned/checked your machine and want to post a comment and are on the list you can email me at depatty at gmail dot com with the IP address and I’ll remove it from the black hole list.
Thanks for reading.
Dave

Black Hole IP Addresses
72.167.164.80
91.84.248.29
67.159.45.96
66.90.104.89
205.234.140.219
208.53.137.178
208.85.242.212
207.58.181.182
67.159.44.159
74.208.16.77
81.0.240.206
85.17.146.140
208.110.82.74
69.9.38.221
76.191.100.11
202.81.162.34
213.251.189.203
67.212.184.146
94.229.69.147
209.200.17.183
68.178.254.130
209.17.190.78

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By Dave,

Haven’t been doing much with this site (or much of anything else onliine) for a while and hadn’t noticed the massive increase in spam coming in here. Updated the version of Wordpress that runs the site to the latest and greatest, and noted that there were over 20,000 items listed as spam. Just bulk deleted them all and put it down to the time it had been since I had last worked on the site. This was Sunday, Dec 28th. On Monday the 29th I checked and there were 470 items listed as spam! Deleted them and then worked on the site off and on during the day and deleted another 66. This morning (Tuesday the 30th) checked and there were another 233 items that were spam. Guess we’ve gotten on some botnet’s list of sites.

Mostly this post is to say that if you’ve tried to comment on a post and it hasn’t shown up, please try again. I’m trying to go through the incoming spam to see if any real comments slip in but with the volume that’s showing up tis easy for me to miss some.

Thanks for visiting!

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By Dave, December 29, 2008 9:22 pm

The Adventures Of Nero Wolf – The Disappearing Diamonds (3-09-51)

The Disappearing Diamonds (Aired March 9, 1951)

A bit of information about the shows, the actors appearing in them, and a link to download the show! Good stuff!

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By Dave,

Pink Ink: Mail Call

Pink Think: “If I’m home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.” – Rex Stout

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By Dave, September 14, 2008 11:30 pm

daisychainrpg: Let’s do the Time Warp Again [Active/Open]

Let’s do the Time Warp Again [Active/Open]
Characters: Nero Wolfe, oh god someone help him.
Content: The shocking revelation that this is not 1954
Location: West 35th Street
Time of Day: Late Morning
Warnings: Rated R for Rancor (ok, literally more like PG)

Nero Wolfe stormed out of his Brownstone on West 35th street in a fury. He had just come down the elevator from his plant rooms on the roof to find his entire home had changed. It was not flummery, because the amount and degree of the changes could not have occured in the time frame alotted or without his knowledge. The only logical answer was that this was either a nightmare or an intense hallucination, except that he had never suffered the latter, and his nightmares were always of similar subject, not this one. There seemed to be no Archie or Fritz here to break him out of this delusion. If it was a delusion, Archie would make himself intolerable about it, nevermind that he was going to miss Fritz’s lunch if this went on for too long.

He glared as he looked up and down the street. Already it was wrong. Some of the other buildings were the same and others had changed. The cars on the street were strange. And most disturbing of all, the people, the loud obnoxious always bustling residents of New York, seemed to have disappeared. In their place was rubble and debris. Wolfe felt himself becoming angrier and his rage was clouding any capacity for logical thought about the situation.

“Confound it!” He bellowed, “What is this nonsense?! I won’t have it!”

A rather interesting ongoing Wolfe story being written by a couple of people on LiveJournal. The above is the into. Different to say the least…

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By Dave,

The Complete Nero Wolfe DVD Megaset Set

8 DVD(s) / 1496+ Minutes
Closed Captioning: Yes
More Details
Was: $99.95 Save $59.97(60%)
On Sale: $39.98 Sale is over. Price is back to $99.95.

PRODUCT DETAIL:
The Complete Nero Wolfe DVD Megaset Set
“…. a, witty, beguiling, colorful, pulse-pounding hoot of a weekly series.” — Los Angeles Times

* All 20 episodes plus the bonus feature-length series pilot, The Golden Spiders.
* Includes high-profile guest stars like George Plimpton (When We Were Kings, Little Man Tate), Penelope Anne Miller (Chaplin, Carlito’s Way), Carrie Fisher (Shampoo, Star Wars, When Harry Met Sally) and Griffin Dunne (Quiz Show, Johnny Dangerously).
* Starring Maury Chaykin (The Sweet Hereafter) and Oscar Winner Timothy Hutton (Sunshine State, Ordinary People).

Experience every single episode of NERO WOLFE, one of fiction’s greatest sleuthing partnerships and an original A&E whodunit classic, in this complete 9-DVD collector’s edition.

Don’t know how long this sale will run, but wanted to alert folks about it as soon as I found out. Enjoy!

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By Dave, September 12, 2008 10:06 pm

There Goes the Top of My Head: Too Many Cooks (A Nero Wolfe novel) by Rex Stout 1938

A review of To Many Cooks, as well as audio files of bits of it read by a fellow Wolfe fan living right here in Alabama…