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Also by Loren D. Estleman:

Smoke on the Water, February 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Iron Star, June 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Vamp, November 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Paperback Jack, November 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Cutthroat Dogs, October 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Eagle and the Viper, March 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Indigo, July 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Nearly Nero, May 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Lioness Is the Hunter, March 2017
Hardcover
Cape Hell, May 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Shoot, February 2016
Hardcover
The Left-Handed Dollar, January 2013
Paperback / e-Book
Frames, September 2010
Paperback
American Detective, December 2008
Paperback
Lost Trails, May 2007
Paperback

NEARLY NERO
By: Loren D. Estleman

The Adventures of Claudius Lyon, the Man Who Would Be Wolfe

Gallery Books
May 2017
On Sale: May 9, 2017
192 pages
ISBN: 1507203276
EAN: 9781507203279
Kindle: B01N5TMODX
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery

Based on the Nero Wolfe series—one of the longest running, critically acclaimed, and bestselling series in the crime fiction world—a collection of Nero Wolfe–inspired crime stories from one of the most prominent crime writers of his era.

From 1934 until his death in 1976, Rex Stout entertained the world with the exploits of Nero Wolfe—the eccentric, organ-breeding detective genius—as related by Archie Goodwin, his irreverent legman. Nearly Nero is an affectionate, tongue-in-cheek homage to Stout’s greatest creation.

Claudius Lyon is a fanatic admirer of Wolfe. He has retrofitted himself and his townhouse after Wolfe’s and has hired a man named Arnie Woodbine to serve as his Archie Goodwin. However, Lyon’s naiveté and Woodbine’s larcenous nature constantly put them in jeopardy—more than Wolfe and Goodwin ever faced.

Somehow the imitator manages to find a solution from every problem. But can he and his assistant keep up this pretense for long?