Some Buried Caesar
By Rex Stout
Pyramid Books, 1973
Mass Market Paperback, 192 pages
Condition: Acceptable. Spine creased. Cover has bends and creasing from handling, some chipping to edges. No writing, tears or dog-ears. No loose or missing pages -- I've just read it myself to confirm that.
"My name is Archie Goodwin. Most people know me as the tough but lovable sidekick of a rather heavyset, beer-drinking, orchid-fancying, uncanny master of detection named Nero Wolfe. Wolfe and I have worked some pretty wild cases. This one I call -- $45,000 Worth of Bull.
"If Thomas Pratt, the millionaire restauranteur, had his heart set on barbecuing Caesar Hickory Grindon, a $45,000 champion bull, that was okay with me. I didn't even really mind guarding the champ in a pitch-black cow pasture at midnight. But things got complicated when an angry young man name of Clyde bet $10,000 that the barbecue would never take place.
"He was right. Everyone kind of lost his appetite when the main dish was discovered paying at Clyde's mangled body … "
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