Woman in the Dark by Dashiell Hammett

First Published: Liberty Magazine (3 instalments), 1933
Edition Read: Vintage Crime, 1989
ISBN: 0-679-772265-3
Subtitle: A Novel of Dangerous Romance

Though beautifully written, this novella is primarily interesting for what it says about the sort of hero Hammett thought he was creating in his writings. This time he incarnated that hero as a woman.
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Where There’s a Will by Rex Stout

First Published: Farra & Rinehart, 1940
Edition Read: Bantam Books, 1992
ISBN: 0 533 76301 6
Series: Nero Wolfe 8

Don’t be taken in by the atrocious title. If you write as many books as Rex Stout did, you’ll eventually use a title that crap too. It’s actually a really good book … if you like that kind of thing. Which you should.
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