Talk:Plot It Yourself

by Rex Stout (1959)

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Murder in Style, The Crime Club (Collins, 1959), Chapter 3, page 30

[...] and though Lily Rowan told me once that I am about as subtle as a sledgehammer – at a moment when her diction was not determined and controlled by rational processes in full consciousness [...]

Chapter 3, page 30

My status and function are whatever a given situation calls for, and the question who decides what it calls for is what occasionally creates an atmosphere in which Wolfe and I are not speaking.

Archie and Fritz, Chapter 4, page 35

I grinned at him. He regards every woman who enters the house as a potential threat to his kitchen, not to mention the rest of his precinct, and he was particularly suspicious of Dol Bonner, Dol being short for Theodolinda, the only female owner and operator of a detective agency in New York. ‘No,’ I said, ‘she came yesterday on a personal matter. Mr Wolfe keeps phoning to ask her to dinner, and she wants me to get him to stop annoying her.’

He pointed the spoon at me. ‘Archie, if I could lie with your aplomb I would be an ambassador.’

Chapter 5, page 41

So [Wolfe] pulled a mutiny, the first one in three years. His mutinies are not like other people’s. Other people mutiny against the Army or Navy, or some other authority, but he mutinies against himself.