Talk:Three Bullets

by Alan Vanneman (2008)

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"Invitation to a Shooting Party", Chapter 2

Inviting Wolfe to Bucks County was like inviting the Statue of Liberty. Neither was likely to make the trip.  ¶

Chapter 4

¶  I stood over the kill, feeling happy.

Nero Wolfe, ib.

¶  “[...] The English aristocracy is equally striking for both its insolence and its insolvency. And one may include arrogance and incompetence as well.”  ¶

Nero Wolfe, Chapter 6

“It is astonishing what gilded embroidery the aristocracy will not lavish upon the implements of their leisure. As though the purpose of life were to shoot a bird rather than eat one.”  ¶

Nero Wolfe, ib.

¶  “[...] I find that I carry not an ounce of surplus. One must balance one’s temperament as one can. [...]”  ¶

ib.

¶  “[...] You do not hunt, Mr. Wolfe?”

“For profit only, not pleasure. And I confine myself to my own species.”  ¶

Fame Will Tell, Chapter 1

¶  “The glass is holding up, Archie,” said Wolfe, once he had the blossoms draped the way he wanted them. “I paid $80,000 for this house when I purchased it. You will forgive me if I do not race to spend eighty times that sum for repairs.”  ¶