A review by michael5000
The Black Mountain by Rex Stout

2.0

The defining characteristic of Nero Wolfe is what? That he is a inert mass, amoral as a cat, who refuses to deviate from his domestic schedule. Sending him off on a James Bond mission to Tito's Yugoslavia on a mission of personal vengeance not only breaks the conventions of the series, it is consistently ridiculous. Wolfe's handling of the local Yugoslav authorities is preposterous. You accept and even welcome dumb fun from a detective novel, but not THIS dumb.