(pb; 1940: eighth book in the
forty-six book Nero Wolfe series)
From the back cover
“Why did the late
multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne leave his sisters, April, Maym and June, a
peach, a pear, and an apple? And why did he will the bulk of his considerable
estate to a woman who was most definitely not his wife? Now Nero Wolfe,
able, astute, and unscrupulous detective that he is, must get to the bottom of
a will that’s left a whirlpool of menace. . . and a legacy of murder that’s
about to be fulfilled.”
Review
Will is a fun, roller coast ride of a Wolfe book, with inconvenient, plot-complicating corpses, lively, complicated and could-be-dangerous characters, Stout’s clever writing, Goodwin’s ego-puncturing humor and Wolfe’s brilliance in the face of blustering deception, death and others’ frustrations. It’s not my favorite Wolfe work, but Will is entertaining, smart, with some memorable lines and characters, which makes me excited for the next Wolfe entry, Black Orchids.
