Some Buried Caesar - June 1970 Forth Printing - Front Cover
Some Buried Caesar - June 1970 Forth Printing - Rear Cover
A Pyramid Book
Copyright 1938, 1939, 1967, By Rex Stout
Forth Printing… June 1970
Contents
Some Buried Caesar
Rear Cover Intro:
MY NAME IS ARCHIE GOODWIN
Most people know me as the tough but lovable sidekick
of a rather heavyset, beer-drinking, orchid-fancying, uncanny master of
deduction named Nero Wolfe. Wolfe and I have worked some pretty wild cases.
This one I call —
$45,000 WORTH OF BULL
If Thomas Pratt, the millionaire restaurateur,
had his heart set on barbecuing Caesar Hickory Grindon, a $45,000 champion
bull, that was okay with me. I didn’t even really mind guarding the champ
in a pitch-black cow pasture at midnight. But things got complicated when
an angry young man named Clyde Osgood — the jilted lover of Pratt’s sexiest
houseguest — bet $10,000 that the barbecue would never take place.
He was right. Everyone kind of lost his appetite
when the main dish was discovered pawing at Clyde’s mangled body. It looked
to me like Caesar was the culprit. Unfortunately, some other people had
me pegged as patsy. But — as usual — my boss, the super sleuth, had his
own ideas…
Inside Cover Text:
Rarely stirring form his luxurious Manhattan brownstone and weighing in at an awe-inspiring one-seventh of a ton, here is Rex Stout’s burly, brainy master of deduction –
Nero Wolfe
Assisted by his wiry, tough-talking sidekick, Archie Goodwin, the caustic clue-hunter, insatiable gourmet, dedicated horticulturist, fastidious gentleman and often-reluctant detective has matched wits with some of the most outrageous characters and inventive criminals in the annals of great detective fiction …
MATCH WITS WITH WOLFE
in
SOME BURIED CAESAR
A Suspenseful Masterpiece of Mystery and Detection!