With Nero tracking down nuances while Archie encounters more than his usual quota of cool-looking girls and much cooler corpses, with both of them up to their raised eyebrows in the world of best sellers, smash hits, and the people columnists stay up to quote, Plot It Yourself is one of the freshest, liveliest, wittiest Rex Stout novel ever to challenge a reader.

And no other investigator could have cracked it, for the solution rested on determining who had written what manuscript, and this required an uncanny eye for literary style. Nero had never encountered a case like this before - until the first body was found. Somebody, or maybe a league of somebodies, was accusing America's most celebrated living writers of plagiarism - and getting away with it. It was the most distinguished group ever to gather in Nero Wolfe's study: two of America's foremost novelists, a world-famous playwright, and the heads of three great publishing houses. Stout, the webmaster reverts to a non-genius streak and re-reads, edits, rewrites, reviews, etc. We want to correct any errors.

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