Talk:Too Many Clients

by Rex Stout (1960)

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Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin in chapter 10, page 128 <ref>Page references follow the 1994 Bantam Books Crime Line edition (The Rex Stout Library); the novel is 207 pages long in that edition.</ref>

¶  “You're incorrigibly mulish<ref>Compare If Death Ever Slept, quote from page 64</ref>.”

“Yes, sir. Same to you.”  ¶

--Faterson

Archie and Fritz Chapter 1 pg. 7-8.

“Not impossible, Archie. The problem would be to crack the oil. Not vinegar; it would take too much. Perhaps lime juice, with or without a drop or two of onion juice. I’ll try it tomorrow.”

--Goodwingrad

Archie and Lon Cohen Chapter 2. pg. 12-13.

“I’m writing it now: ‘Nero Wolfe, private eye extraordinary, was plunging into the Yeager murder case more than two hours before the body was discovered in an excavation on West Eighty-second Street. At five-five P.M. his lackey, Archie Goodwin, phoned the Gazette office to get-“

“You’ll eat it. The whole world knows I’m not a lackey, I’m a flunky, and the idea of Nero Wolfe plunging.”

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