In the first mystery, Archie and Wolfe discover a murder at the New York Flower Show. The fee is three black orchid plants, paid for by Wolfe's orchid-nemesis. In the second mystery, a woman hires Wolfe to expose a strange blackmail attempt. When she dies unexpectedly, Wolfe sends black orchids to /5. · Bantam has been reissuing Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels in groups of two-novels-in-one-volume for some time now, and I've been picking them up as I find them. Black Orchids () is paired with 's The Silent Speaker, which will be my /5. "Black Orchids" is the 9th book in Rex Stout's "Nero Wolfe" series. It's really two novellas ("Black Orchids" () and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death ()) packaged together and loosely linked by some black orchids. Both of these novellas are excellent. I don't usually like short stories or novellas. I find them too truncated and abrupt/5().
Black Orchids is, I believe, unusual in the Wolfe canon in that it's actually two novellas rather than one mystery; the stories are vaguely linked by the rare flower which provides the title. In "Black O Bantam has been reissuing Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels in groups of two-novels-in-one-volume for some time now, and I've been picking them up. BLACK ORCHIDS Not much can get Wolfe to leave his comfortable brownstone, but the showing of a rare black orchid lures him to a flower show. Unfortunately, the much-anticipated event is soon overshadowed by a murder as daring as it is sudden. Rex Stout () wrote hundreds of short stories, novelas, and full-length mystery novels. Reviewed in the United States on Octo. Verified Purchase. "Black Orchids" is the 9th book in Rex Stout's "Nero Wolfe" series. It's really two novellas ("Black Orchids" () and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death ()) packaged together and loosely linked by some black orchids. Both of these novellas are excellent.
"Black Orchids" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, first published in abridged form as "Death Wears an Orchid" in the August issue of The American Magazine. It first appeared in book form in the short-story collection Black Orchids, published by Farrar Rinehart in Bantam has been reissuing Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels in groups of two-novels-in-one-volume for some time now, and I've been picking them up as I find them. Black Orchids () is paired with 's The Silent Speaker, which will be my next Wolfe mystery; this review concerns only the former. "Black Orchids" is the 9th book in Rex Stout's "Nero Wolfe" series. It's really two novellas ("Black Orchids" () and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death ()) packaged together and loosely linked by some black orchids. Both of these novellas are excellent. I don't usually like short stories or novellas. I find them too truncated and abrupt.
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