Robert Goldsborough: Murder in E Minor (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
Two years after Wolfe's retirement, his past returns with deadly intent
It wasn't Nero Wolfe's idea for Orrie Cather to kill himself, but the great detective gave his blessing to his longtime associate's plan. Cather had killed three people, and it was only fair to pay the price. Though Wolfe reacted to Cather's death with his characteristic calmness, prize assistant Archie Goodwin could see the rotund genius of West Thirty-Fifth Street was shaken to his well-fed core. Wolfe decided his sleuthing days were finished.

The detective's retirement lasts until the day Maria Radovich walks through his townhouse door. She is the daughter of Milos Stefanovic, New York Symphony conductor and long-ago compatriot of Wolfe's. Like Wolfe, Stefanovic spent his youth as a freedom fighter in the mountains of Montenegro. The conductor has been receiving death threats, and Wolfe agrees to come out of retirement to help his old friend. But before he can attack the case, Stefanovic is murdered, and for the first time in years, Wolfe and Goodwin must go to war.

Robert Goldsborough: Murder in E Minor. A Nero Wolfe Mystery. MysteriousPress.com, ISBN: 9781504034746 (April, 2016), 204 p., $13.99.

Robert Goldsborough: Murder in E Minor (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
WHEN A MAESTRO IS MURDERED, ARCHIE IS FLABBERGASTED WHEN THE GARGANTUAN GOURMET DETECTIVE LIFTS HIMSELF OUT OF RETIREMENT. AMID A JUICY PUBLIC SCANDAL, WOLFE AND ARCHIE FEAST ON SUSPECTS YET STARVE FOR FACTS- UNTIL THE SCANTY CLUES FINALLY ARRANGE THEMSELVES LIKE NOTES ON A SCORE, AND WOLFE RECOGNIZES A DARK MELODY THAT ONLY A MURDER VIRTUOSO COULD PERFORM.

"Robert Goldsborough brings Nero Wolfe, late of Rex Stout, gloriously back to life... There isn't a false note in this Nero Wolfe" -- Chicago Magazine
"Goldsborough has not only written a first rate mystery that stands tall on its own merits, he has faithfully re-created the rotund detective and his milieu." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
"Splendid... Stout fans will find this a loving, knowledgeable, mightily pleasing re-creation." -- Kirkus
"Wolfe in all his gluttonous splendor... The book plays strictly by the rules that Stout established.' - Chicago Tribune

"Mr. Goldsborough has all of the late writer's stylistic mannerisms down pat... It is fun once again to enter the brownstone on West 35th Street, vicariously taste Fritz Brenner's cooking, observe Wolfe's behavior at his desk, attend the inevitable roundup in which all suspects are brought to the premises, with Cramer and Stebbins lurking in the background, skeptical as always. By now they should know that Wolfe never makes a mistake at this point in the game. Of course, he doesn't in this case. And he is as insufferably omniscient as ever." -- The New York Times

Robert Goldsborough: Murder in E Minor. A Nero Wolfe Mystery. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553261207 (March, 1987), 196 p., $3.50.

Robert Goldsborough: Murder in E Minor (USA 1986)

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Backside:
The doorway led into a good-sized library with a fireplace, a grand piano, and an Oriental rug. The body was lying facedown near a high, monk-style writing desk. Milan Stevens was dead, and it wasn't hard to figure out why: the back of his white shirt was stained dark red, and a fancy, long-handled letter opener lay a few feet away. A softcover book lay open on the monk's desk, and I covered my hand with my handkerchief as I turned the pages. It was music, plus a lot of penciled notations that might as well have been in Urdu. For the record, the cover sheet said "Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, for Orchestra, by Johannes Brahms, Op. 98." I went back to the study and dialed the number I know best. Wolfe answered after one ring.
      "Stevens is dead. Stabbed in his study. I'm there now, with Maria, and I'm about to call the police. Instructions?"
      I could hear him draw in air and let it out slowly.
      "No," he said. "I suppose you'll have to go to headquarters?"
      "Without question," I said. "I'll report first thing in the morning, if they let me out by then."
      "Very well," Wolfe said with disgust. "Have you eaten?"

AND SO BEGINS A NEW MYSTERY FOR REX STOUT'S NERO WOLFE AND ARCHIE GOODWIN, WRITTEN WITH EXTRAORDINARY AUTHENTICITY BY NERO WOLFE EXPERT ROBERT GOLDSBOROUGH

Front flap:
Nero Wolfe, the brilliant orchid-growing gourmet detective, and his inimitable confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, are America's most beloved detection team. Now they are back in a splendid new murder mystery that takes up where Rex Stout left off. In the perfect Stout tradition, author Robert Goldsborough has ingeniously rendered every detail of character and place with such uncanny accuracy that fans will savor every page to its surprising and immensely satisfying conclusion.

MURDER IN E MINOR
Threatening notes have been sent to Milan Stevens, celebrated conductor of the New York Symphony, His niece, Maria, fears for her uncle's life and travels to the Thirty-fifth Street brownstone of Nero Wolfe. Archie can barely conceal his surprise when Wolfe agrees to investigate-Archie has just spent two spectacularly unsuccessful years trying to pry his employer out of retirement. But Wolfe has his own reasons for taking the case, reasons that have nothing to do with helping a pretty young woman in distress. For while the world knows Milan Stevens as a brilliant conductor, Wolfe knows him as Milos Stefanovic, the brave freedom fighter who saved Wolfe's life many years ago. It is a debt that must be paid.

Robert Goldsborough: Murder in E Minor. A Nero Wolfe Mystery. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553051237 (April, 1986), 149 p., $13.95.