Put the ears on a baking sheet in a 475-500 degree oven for 40 minutes, and then present on a platter at the table with butter and salt on the side. Have your guests shuck at the table. It tastes like cake.

You’ll be tempted to cook this at a lower heat or for less long, but I’ve tried it at all heats from 400 to 500 and from 20 minutes to 40 minutes. Forty minutes at 500 degrees is the best. It doesn’t dry out. It’s sweet and perfect. Don’t worry about the cornsilk; it comes easily off the ear after roasting.

via The Spiral Staircase: The Best Corn on the Cob Ever (a la Nero Wolfe).

Been meaning to try this but haven’t gotten there yet. Tis that time of year so must get some and do so.

The Second Confession - May 1995 - 5th Printing - Front Cover

The Second Confession - May 1995 - 5th Printing - Rear Cover

The Second Confession
A Bantam Crime Line Book / published by arrangement with Viking Penguin

Publishing History

Viking edition published September 1949
Dollar Mystery Guild edition / December 1949
Bantam edition / September 1952
New Bantam edition / May 1961
2nd new Bantam edition / January 1975
Bantam reissue edition / May 1995

Condensations appeared in the Montreal Standard, Newark Evening News, and Chicago Sun-Times 1950

Copyright 1949 by Rex Stout

Scans are from a 5th printing

Contents:

The Second Confession

Rear Cover Introduction:

The Second Confession

When a millionaire businessman hires Nero Wolfe to probe the background of his daughter’s boyfriend, it seems like just another case of an overprotective father. But when a powerful gangland boss “counsels” the detective to drop the matter, Wolfe realizes it’s much more than that.  Unwilling to take a hint, Wolfe receives a warning: a burst of machine-gun fire through the windows of his orchid room. Then the lawyer boyfriend turns up dead, leaving Archie the number one suspect. Throw in drugged drinks, two man-killing debutantes, and officials of a highly un-American party and Wolfe finds himself involved in a case where he must quickly solve one murder to prevent another: his own.

Frame-Up for Murder Illustration from The Saturday Evening Post (June 21, 1958)

Archie Goodwin meets Flora Gallant in part one of Rex Stout’s “Frame-Up for Murder,” illustrated by Austin Briggs for The Saturday Evening Post (June 21, 1958)
Source Archie Goodwin (fictional detective)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bitter End Illustration for The American Magazine - November 1940

“Bitter End” — Carl Mueller illustrated Rex Stout’s first Nero Wolfe novella for The American Magazine (November 1940)
Source Nero Wolfe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks!
Dave
AKA Albert Freyer

The Silent Speaker - Bantam Reissue - February 1994 - 13th Printing - Front Cover

The Silent Speaker - Bantam Reissue - February 1994 - 13th Printing - Rear Cover

A Bantam Crime Line Edition
Copyright 1946 By Rex Stout
Bantam Reissue – February 1994 – 13th Printing

Contents

The Silent Speaker

Rear Cover Intro:

THE SILENT SPEAKER

When a powerful government official, scheduled to speak to a group of millionaires, turns up dead, it is an event worthy of the notice of the great Nero Wolfe. Balancing on the edge of financial ruin, the orchard-loving detective grudgingly accepts the case. Soon a second victim is found bludgeoned to death, a missing stenographer’s tape causes an uproar, and the dead man speaks, after a fashion. While the business world clamors for a solution, Nero Wolfe patiently lays a trap that will net him a killer worth his weight in gold.

Link to the post is The Nero Wolfe Cookbook