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Title: Three more inferior wartime Wolfe stories
Review: Rex Stout had important duties in World War II, so he apparently couldn't devote much effort to the first two of the three stories here, and it shows. (It also shows how much effort he put into his better stories, something his imitators don't seem to manage.) The third, set shortly after the war, is less bad, but still weak. As (minor spoiler) Inspector Cramer notes, the murderer is an idiot, which is how Stout got the plot to work. But it has certain points of interest for completists; the tone is slightly coarser and more real than in most of the other Wolfe stories.
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