title: The Missing Chapter
author:  Robert Goldsborough 
description: Life imitates art imitates life. In his seventh Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin caper, the writer responsible for continuing the noted series after the death of originator Rex Stout plots a case around the corpse of an author who has continued a mystery series after the original writer's demise. A publisher hires Wolfe and Goodwin to investigate the death, labeled a suicide, of Charles Childress, an ill-tempered author who had recently angered several people, including his agent, his editor and the possibly corrupt reviewer who had lambasted the latest Childress novel. Yet for all that, Childress also had a pretty fiancee, a loyal friend in a fellow author and the devotion of many fans. Goldsborough carefully draws Wolfe and company into the '90s (computers figure in the plot and hold records of Wolfe's beloved orchids), yet the corpulent sleuth still abandons himself to Fritz Brenner's high-fat meals. As always, Archie does the legwork, which in this instance takes him to rural Indiana, Childress's home state, to unearth secrets that Wolfe pieces together in an assured and effective conclusion. Goldsborough ( Fade to Black ) may not recruit new fans to the anachronistic and bulky Wolfe, but he's likely to satisfy the old Rex Stout faithful. <br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Alton of Somasco
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Harold Bindloss
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. THE FIRST ENCOUNTER
  
  
  CHAPTER II. AT TOWNSHEAD'S RANCH
  
  
  CHAPTER III. HARRY THE TEAMSTER
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. HALLAM OF THE TYEE
  
  
  CHAPTER V. THE HEIR OF CARNABY
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. MISS DERINGHAM MAKES FRIENDS
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. ALTON BLUNDERS
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. HALLAM'S CONFEDERATE
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. MISS DERINGHAM FEELS SLIGHTED
  
  
  CHAPTER X. THE UNDELIVERED MESSAGE
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. CONFIDENCE MISPLACED
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. IN VANCOUVER
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. THE SOMASCO CONSOLIDATED
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. THE COMPACT
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. ON THE TRAIL
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. CAUSE FOR ANXIETY
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. ALONE
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE WILDERNESS
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX. FOUL PLAY
  
  
  CHAPTER XX. THE NICKED BULLET
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI. OKANAGAN'S ROAD
  
  
  CHAPTER XXII. MISS DERINGHAM DECIDES
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIII. THE AWAKENING
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIV. HALLAM TRIES AGAIN
  
  
  CHAPTER XXV. ALTON IS SILENT
  
  
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