A review by hannahstohelit
Three Men Out by Linda Ellerbee, Rex Stout

4.0

This was enjoyable but insubstantial enough that a day later, I had to kind of rack my brains to try to remember what the three novellas were. While the other Stout I read this weekend (Black Orchids) was also novellas, I think that there being three of them in a relatively short book wasn't ideal- Stout's plots are fine but it's the trimmings that make the books more than fine and with the novella length you don't really get enough of them. That said, I did enjoy the novellas quite a bit while reading them (besides the last one which I thought was kind of meh, Stout just feels out of his element talking about baseball and the loopy plot feels like evidence of that), even if the whole thing kind of felt like less than the sum of its parts.