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...Hail Nero Shero and His Bullies...
...Hail Nero Shero...
...Shakespeare Company, proffers at least one clue to the enduring fascination of Sherlock Holmes. He has the mythic quality of a seer. He is a master illusionist of the mind, a cerebral magician. He simply does not belong in the ordinary annals of sleuthdom. Even such outstanding detectives as Nero Wolfe, Inspector Maigret and Philo Vance pile up and sift the facts. Holmes notes the evidence with something like X-ray vision and pulverizes it with weary disdain in a sentence or two. His fictional colleagues may be clever; he is clairvoyant...
MOST OF THE WRITERS interviewed are more than willing to deliver their opinions and observations on politics, the state of the world, life, death, and above all, writing. Rex Stout has no trouble dashing off a new Nero Wolfe every 39 days, and Isaac Asimov writes books the way most people sneeze. But the other authors find writing a painful process, especially as they grow older and fear losing their inspiration and energy. "The metronomic quality of a columnist's life is like Chinese water torture," says an unusually morose Russell Baker. "Wednesday Thursday Sunday, Wednesday Thursday Sunday. That stretches...
Evil had no chance against such moral exemplars. The Shadow, who was invisible to malefactors, informed them that "the weed of crime bears bitter fruit." Dr. Christian, an M.D. with the deductive powers of Nero Wolfe, announced that "when you've lived as long as I have, you'll find justice always gets the breaks. [PAUSE] Wrongdoing never pays off in the end." Once the criminals were run to earth, Mr. District Attorney would prosecute them to the full extent of the law; there were few defense-attorney heroes in the old days...