Robert Goldsborough, Trouble At The Brownstone: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
Open Road Integrated Media
© 2021 Robert Goldsborough

Goldsborough means well, and his love of Rex Stout's world is apparent.  In this installment (his 16th), he takes on a real issue--the sureptious entry of Nazis into the US after WW2 ended.  And I did in fact learn something, unrelated to the post-war issue.  He referred a couple of times to someone getting a public defender--and I thought that public defenders were a somewhat more recent developments.  So I googled--New York City has had a public defender office since the 1880s.  But the rest of the book doesn't help much.  And when Wolfe reveals all--asserts all, actually, as he has, or at least provides, no evidence--I was disappointed.  Granted that he actually did identify the villains, I could see no basis for h is conclusions, no real reason for Inspector Cramer to arrest anyone, and no reason to expect, on the strength of the available evidence, no hope for a conviction.