Rex Stout was a master wordsmith. A few days ago I was reading a paragraph from an argument Archie and Wolfe were having, and I realized that the sentences sounded like lines of music. I'll try to find the passage and show everybody.

And I love it when Wolfe says, "Archie. Shut up." The period after Archie makes it almost affectionate.
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The portrayal of Saul Panzer is all wrong. They have him lean, dark and intense. In my imagination Saul Panzer was a pale guy with dishwater hair and light eyes. You'd probably take him for a clerk in a shoe store, but you'd be making terrible mistake.