Monthly Archives: April 2010

This was a collection of three Nero Wolfe short stories that I picked up at a local used book shop. Each of the stories features the regular cast of characters – Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, Inspector Cramer, and so on – and the stories follow the not-exactly-contiguous continuity that Rex Stout adopted after the first few books. The stories were first published in the early 1960’s, but they could easily be re-set anywhere from the 40’s to the 70’s.
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Out at the edge of a tottering empire, a traveling scholar has found a man that he believes was once the greatest magician adventurer of recent memory. This man was a brilliant bard, a notable swordsman, and one of the few to master the deepest magic – commanding the structure of reality by calling on things by their True Names. Unfortunately for the scholar, this man is now living incognito as a humble innkeeper, and he refuses to tell his life story to anyone. Only as evidence mounts that an ancient evil is stirring again does he break this silence.
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The latest novel in the Harry Dresden series, “Changes” does exactly what it says on the cover. It changes everything.
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England! In the era of the Napoleanic wars. A fertile field for fiction, yadda, yadda, I’ve done this rant before, in a way. Instead of dragons though, this book splits with reality by making magic a historical fact.
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