Rex Stout - Reception and Influence

Reception and Influence

“ If he had done nothing more than to create Archie Goodwin, Rex Stout would deserve the gratitude of whatever assessors watch over the prosperity of American literature. For surely Archie is one of the folk heroes in which the modern American temper can see itself transfigured. ”
— Jacques Barzun

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