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GAMBIT (1962) is one of the best of Rex Stout's fair-play puzzles. Although it lacks the wry wit that makes many of the other Nero Wolfe-Archie Goodwin mysteries such a pleasure to read, the style is appropriate to the story, the cast of characters is excellent, and the climax is genuinely touching when Archie tells their client, a young woman who hired them despite the strong disapproval of her mother and her father's lawyer, "I'm glad to have met you and I want your autograph. If this is the first good thing you ever did, you did it good."

As the title GAMBIT suggests, there is a chess tie-in. A young chess expert becomes very ill while playing a "blindfold" match with multiple opponents (figuratively he's blindfolded: he literally is in a separate room, away from all the boards, and an array of messengers tell him what moves his opponents have made and convey his moves back to those opponents). When this young expert is taken to a nearby hospital, it is determined that he has been poisoned with arsenic. Shortly after being hired by the daughter of a wealthy man who has been arrested and charged with murder, Wolfe determines that "gambit" is a word that also applies to the strategy of the real killer, whoever that may be.

When one of the key suspects is also murdered, the field is narrowed for Wolfe and Archie, and when Archie is finally able to speak with the accused man (some 30 pages before the end of the book), Archie is fairly certain he knows "who done it." And when he conveys the conversation to Wolfe, his boss fully agrees. (Readers who have their wits about them will ALSO know at that point, and will clearly see what difficulties still remain as far as gathering evidence is concerned.)

While GAMBIT has at least three "ancestors" that contain variations on the same central plot gimmick or premise as this work (James Yaffe's "The Problem of the Emperor's Mushrooms," 1945; Ellery Queen's "Murder without Clues," aka "The Three Widows," 1950 and 1952; and Ellery Queen's "The Curse of Kali," 1954), Rex Stout's novel is far more intricately constructed than any of those short mysteries and is much more emotionally satisfying with its presentation of Wolfe's and Archie's final confrontations with both the killer and Inspector Cramer.


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Gambit A Nero Wolfe Mystery Rex Stout Michael Prichard 9781572704411 Books Reviews

Rex Stout has a consistent family of characters in Nero Wolfe, Archie, Fritz, Theodore, Saul, Lon, Fred, and Orrie. This book has so many twists and turns that one could become dizzy just reading it.
If you like mystery and controlled suspense, I recommend Gambit.
I have always been an avid reader of Nero Wolfe mysteries. Another well done novel by Rex Stout! Don't miss this one!! Couldn't wait to find out who the killer was and how Wolfe planned to nail him. Don't miss this one!!
The mystery was well done, but the way the author writes, describing everything down to its most excruciating, irrelevant detail, made me want to shout "Get to the point!" I won't be buying any more Nero Wolfe novels by John Dickson Carr.
I don't read these books for the mystery, though they are always entertaining, I read the for the rapport between Archie and Nero. Part comedy burlesque and part Sherlock and Watson. This one is almost a locked door mystery, and it plays out like one. Fun and entertaining.
A murder occurs at a chess club, and the murderer has to be one of seven men. Six are quickly eliminated so the seventh is arrested. The daughter of the arrested man hires Wolfe to investigate the murder. It seems there is no possible way anyone other than her father could possibly have done it. It takes a lot of investigation to come up with the slightest chance of finding one of the other six men to be implicated, and then another man is murdered. That indicates the original man charged with the murder must be innocent, but it takes a very complicated plan to finally catch the guilty man. This was an intriguing mystery, and I highly recommend it.
Minus half a star. At an exclusive New York chess club, an objectionable man playing twelve simultaneous "blind" chess games dies of arsenic poisoning after drinking from a pot of hot chocolate. The police have established fairly early that only one person could have poisoned the chocolate and, worse, he admits that he washed out the pot and cup shortly after the victim fell ill. This is the man Wolfe is trying to get off. Wolfe starts with the assumption that the man is innocent and concentrates on the four "messengers" who entered the room to report the board moves to the victim. I almost never guess the solution to a mystery, but I did this time and fairly early at that, mainly because it's a variation on mysteries I've read before, some of them by Stout himself -- hence, the subtraction of half a star. Nevertheless, it's not the puzzle that attracts me to the genre, but the characters and milieu. Archie and Wolfe get off some nifty lines, some of which made me laugh out loud. However, what really attracts me to these books is their evocation of bygone Manhattan, where young girls didn't disobey their parents, tycoons indulged silly whims, and couples went dining and dancing in Art Deco settings. It's a kinder, gentler, and economically more diverse New York, the Manhattan of my youth.
Rex Stout was one of the great master storytellers of the 20th century and this is a particular favorite of mine. I discovered Rex Stout and Nero Wolf when I was 19, more than 50 years ago, and have the complete opus. In fact this purchase was the third I think, having worn out two other copies. At first, for the first fifteen years or so I read the whole series once a year, then read them every two years then every few years so that I must have read most of them at least twenty times. It's like visiting people you like; you never get tired of spending time with them.

I have categorized the novels in terms of how much I like them. In the Best Families is in a top category by itself and then there is a second tier ( still "A" level), mostly those written in the 1930's and 1940's. Gambit is a later novel but is still in this second tier of excellence.
GAMBIT (1962) is one of the best of Rex Stout's fair-play puzzles. Although it lacks the wry wit that makes many of the other Nero Wolfe-Archie Goodwin mysteries such a pleasure to read, the style is appropriate to the story, the cast of characters is excellent, and the climax is genuinely touching when Archie tells their client, a young woman who hired them despite the strong disapproval of her mother and her father's lawyer, "I'm glad to have met you and I want your autograph. If this is the first good thing you ever did, you did it good."

As the title GAMBIT suggests, there is a chess tie-in. A young chess expert becomes very ill while playing a "blindfold" match with multiple opponents (figuratively he's blindfolded he literally is in a separate room, away from all the boards, and an array of messengers tell him what moves his opponents have made and convey his moves back to those opponents). When this young expert is taken to a nearby hospital, it is determined that he has been poisoned with arsenic. Shortly after being hired by the daughter of a wealthy man who has been arrested and charged with murder, Wolfe determines that "gambit" is a word that also applies to the strategy of the real killer, whoever that may be.

When one of the key suspects is also murdered, the field is narrowed for Wolfe and Archie, and when Archie is finally able to speak with the accused man (some 30 pages before the end of the book), Archie is fairly certain he knows "who done it." And when he conveys the conversation to Wolfe, his boss fully agrees. (Readers who have their wits about them will ALSO know at that point, and will clearly see what difficulties still remain as far as gathering evidence is concerned.)

While GAMBIT has at least three "ancestors" that contain variations on the same central plot gimmick or premise as this work (James Yaffe's "The Problem of the Emperor's Mushrooms," 1945; Ellery Queen's "Murder without Clues," aka "The Three Widows," 1950 and 1952; and Ellery Queen's "The Curse of Kali," 1954), Rex Stout's novel is far more intricately constructed than any of those short mysteries and is much more emotionally satisfying with its presentation of Wolfe's and Archie's final confrontations with both the killer and Inspector Cramer.