I always find it odd when the Nero Award goes to a book that is not a PI novel; this one's a cop novel. The description says "written in the tradition of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories." I will admit to having no idea what that means (for example, how does Tony Hillerman's Coyote Waits fit? It won in 1991; it's a terrific book; I like it a lot.). Maybe half of the Neros are for PI novels...most of them are (so far as I know) pretty good books, though.
I think it's been that way almost since the beginning, Don. I guess it's okay to give the award to well-written books, but very few of the winners have seemed even vaguely related to Stout (at least to me).
Wish the novellas were easier to get at. Maybe someone should publish a set of books collecting the. There are 10 of them as of this year, only one of which has been anthologized (the 2008 winner).
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I always find it odd when the Nero Award goes to a book that is not a PI novel; this one's a cop novel. The description says "written in the tradition of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories." I will admit to having no idea what that means (for example, how does Tony Hillerman's Coyote Waits fit? It won in 1991; it's a terrific book; I like it a lot.). Maybe half of the Neros are for PI novels...most of them are (so far as I know) pretty good books, though.
I think it's been that way almost since the beginning, Don. I guess it's okay to give the award to well-written books, but very few of the winners have seemed even vaguely related to Stout (at least to me).
Well, I bought the book, so we'll see...
Wish the novellas were easier to get at. Maybe someone should publish a set of books collecting the. There are 10 of them as of this year, only one of which has been anthologized (the 2008 winner).
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