Fer-de-LanceAs any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda -- whistling a seductive tune he hopes will catch a killer who's still got poison in his heart. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 11 |
Section 3 | 25 |
Section 4 | 41 |
Section 5 | 52 |
Section 6 | 75 |
Section 7 | 86 |
Section 8 | 98 |
Section 11 | 138 |
Section 12 | 156 |
Section 13 | 175 |
Section 14 | 200 |
Section 15 | 215 |
Section 16 | 238 |
Section 17 | 257 |
Section 18 | 272 |
Section 9 | 111 |
Section 10 | 127 |
Section 19 | 282 |
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Page 4 - Wolfe looked up again, and his big thick lips pushed out a little, tight together, just a small movement, and back again, and then out and back again. How I loved to watch him doing that! That was about the only time I ever got excited, when Wolfe's lips were moving like that. ... I knew what was going on, something was happening so fast inside of him and so much ground was being covered
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Page vii - Some day, Archie, when I decide you are no longer worth tolerating, you will have to marry a woman of very modest mental capacity to get an appropriate audience for your wretched sarcasms.
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The Mystery of Culture Contacts, Historical Reconstruction, and Text ... Kenneth Lee Pike Limited preview - 1996 |