![]() Plot it Yourself is one of the few books in the series where a blackmailer survives (due to making sure that her victim knew that valuable evidence would be released in the event of her death), but she is arrested. Tropes in this work: (Tropes relating to the series as a whole, or to the characters in general can be found on Nero Wolfe and its subpages.) ![]() Meanwhile, the sole survivor, Alice Porter, is repeating the scheme, and Wolfe must keep her alive while working on her in order to keep the mastermind from slaughter - and to enjoy the taste of beer and meat once again. ![]() Wolfe's admitted botch of the investigation - failing to keep watch on Jacobs - is multiplied when two of the other plagiarists are slain. When the committee agrees to offer plagiarist Simon Jacobs money to identify the author, Jacobs is killed before Archie can make the offer. Wolfe quickly realizes that one person wrote all the fraudulent manuscripts, as the syntax and paragraphing match, but that person was not one of the plagiarists. ![]() In each case, a manuscript corroborating the claim has been found, and the author and publisher have been forced to pay. ![]() Rex Stout's twenty-second Nero Wolfe novel, published in 1959.Ī joint committee from the Book Publishers of America (BPA) and the National Association of Authors and Dramatists (NAAD) hires Wolfe to stop a scheme of plagiarism that has been run successfully four times, but in reverse: instead of the plagiarist stealing a known work, the plagiarists are claiming that the known work has been stolen from them. ![]()
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