Ebook {Epub PDF} Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout

“Too Many Cooks” () was Stout’s fifth Nero Wolfe mystery, and it takes place at the Kanawha Spa in West Virginia where ten of the world’s greatest chefs, Les Quinze Maitres (there used to be fifteen of them), are holding their quinquennial get-together/5(). Too Many Cooks: One of Rex Stout's very best Nero Wolfe mystery novels. A gathering of the greatest chefs in the world; Nero wolfe having to travel by train to attend as the guest of honor; amazingly described dishes prepared by these chefs (I get hungry every time I /5(). Of course, a hole in the ice offers peril only to those who go skating. (Nero Wolfe; p. ) The tag line on my edition of Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks () says: Nero Wolfe steps out to dine with a dozen cooks and a killer. And "steps out" he does--out of the brownstone (which is a miracle in and of itself), into a train (a moving vehicle!), and out of New York State/5.

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Everyone knows that too many cooks spoil the broth, but you'd hardly expect it to lead to murder. But that's exactly what's on the menu at a five-star gathering of the world's greatest chefs. As guest of honor, Wolfe was lured from his brownstone to a posh southern spa to deliver the keynote address. Too Many Cooks: One of Rex Stout's very best Nero Wolfe mystery novels. A gathering of the greatest chefs in the world; Nero wolfe having to travel by train to attend as the guest of honor; amazingly described dishes prepared by these chefs (I get hungry every time I read this book); and, by the way, a murder. Too Many Cooks is the fifth Nero Wolfe detective novel by American mystery writer Rex Stout. The story was serialized in The American Magazine before its publication in book form in by Farrar Rinehart, Inc. The novel was collected in the omnibus volume Kings Full of Aces, published in by the Viking Press.