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Hot dogs cost a nickel. We read about shamuses and dames, gats and capers, dicks and broads. Then came VE Day. And VJ Day. Victory in Europe and Japan, and the long war was over. It was a time of new things. The United Nations.

Instant coffee. Nylon stockings, with seams. Ballpoint pens. In , the year we were fourteen, And Be a Villain was published. We had made it to postwar America. The new state of Israel was born, Gandhi was assassinated, and the transistor was invented. Typing was done on mechanical typewriters, with carbon paper copies. When Annette met Marty, in , the area below Fourteenth Street and east of Fifth Avenue was awash with used-book stores.

We climbed on shaky ladders and pawed through dusty shelves and wooed each other with first editions of the thirties and forties Nero Wolfe. In rereading the early Nero Wolfe canon we are struck by two particular things. One, they still work. But, two, they create a time machine. When Archie gives the housekeeper, Maria Maffei, a dollar tip in Fer-de-Lance , it boggles the mind to realize how much that dollar bought during the Depression.

The time, the politics, the war, the clubs where Archie took Lily Rowan dancing, the rationing Archie talks about and Nero Wolfe complains about are rooted in our personal memories. And Be a Villain , simply because of the passage of time, has become an historical mystery. Rex Stout was by no means a feminist; he was a man of his time—an exceptional man, but of his time. Still, he created strong women; he allowed that they could exist.

All right, so she was rich. Poor people did not make the reader forget about the Depression or the war. Archie may be cynical, but the Nero Wolfe books are not. The Wolfe books of the thirties and forties are not at all dark. Wolfe, the armchair detective, solves the murder by brain, not brawn, and most of the time without leaving the sanctum sanctorum on Thirty-fifth Street. Back at the brownstone, Fritz cooks elegant meals. Meals in the brownstone on West Thirty-fifth Street, not far from the Hudson River, were sacrosanct, the menus always fascinating.

The fact that Wolfe was a connoisseur of fine food who would accept nothing but the best, even on ration coupons, and employed a full-time chef of incredible talent further distances Wolfe from any of his literary contemporaries. Even Lord Peter never had it so good. Somewhere between the hard-boiled detective story and the cozy mystery, Nero Wolfe sits alone, the master, in his huge, specially constructed brown leather Brazilian Mauro chair.

The past is gone forever. But if you go along with Archie, he will take you back in time in this case, , to the world of Nero Wolfe. Then I swiveled my chair to face Nero Wolfe, who was seated behind his desk to the right of mine reading a book of poems by a guy named Van Doren, Mark Van Doren.

So I thought I might as well use a poetry word. Four thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and sixty-eight cents, in addition to the four quarterly installments already paid. Then we have to send in ES for , and a check for ten thousand bucks goes with it. He asked what the bank balance was and I told him. Wolfe had put down the poetry and was scowling at the Form , pretending he could add.

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