Dalene Johnson's Reviews > The Bloodied Ivy

Robert Goldsborough has done a credible job of carrying on for Rex Stout with the Nero Wolfe series. I've read all of them. Rex Stout's characterizations of Archie Goodwin and Nero Wolfe created a reality I was saddened to leave once I had devoured more than 40 books of the series. As many others, I came to know them as admired friends. Goldsborough misses the mark sometimes with sloppy plotting and dialog inconsistent with Wolfe's erudition and I forgive him these shortcomings. In this particular effort, however, I was disappointed when he portrayed Archie as lascivious and inconstant to his long time lady friend, Lily Rowan. I doubt Stout would have approved either.