Word: farrars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BLACK ORCHIDS-Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nero Wolfe and his ebullient amanuensis Archie Goodwin are here at top form in two "novellas" -"Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death." The first concerns a cleverly contrived murder at New York's annual Flower Show. The second features an adroit bit of poisoning in the fantastic Riverdale ménage- and menagerie-of a successful party-arranger for Manhattan society. First-class entertainment...
...dream-ing, moody, self-dramatizing (he affected long hair, curvaceous hats, a Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most of it borrowed, producing The Miracle, went bankrupt when it folded in Dallas). At various times he represented Eleanora Duse, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, brought to the U.S. for the first time the Diaghilev Ballet, Balieff's Chauve-Souris, the Moscow Art Theater...
Farnlof, N. C. '43; Farrar, R. S.; Fein, J. M.; Fraker...
ISLANDIA-Austin Tappan Wright-Farrar & Rinehart...
HAUNTED LADY-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nurse Adams is deputized by a police commissioner to watch over a wealthy widow whose bedroom is inexplicably visited by bats and rats. Outwitted momentarily by a clever murderer, Nurse Adams finally forces a confession. A clean-cut, quick-stepping yarn, minus the garrulous complexities of recent Rinehart stories...