The Bloodied Ivy
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
The Nero Wolfe Mysteries: Book #3
- By: Robert Goldsborough
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Description
A professor’s death lures the reclusive detective and his sidekick to a bucolic crime scene: “Goldsborough does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy” (Booklist).
An academic so conservative he thought Ronald Reagan was a pinko, Hale Markham rules Prescott University like an intellectual tyrant—until the morning he’s found dead at the bottom of one of Prescott’s famously beautiful ravines. Every liberal on campus hated the crotchety old crank, but which one is responsible for giving Markham his final push to the right? The case so intrigues the incomparable, reclusive master detective Nero Wolfe that he takes the unusual step of leaving the confines of his home. With man of action Archie Goodwin at his side, Wolfe examines jealous professors, a fanatical assistant, and a university president with an ego that—like the school itself—will not stop growing. Though they’re far from the city, Wolfe and Goodwin will find that no back alley is as dangerous as the shadowy corridors of the Ivy League.
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The Nero Wolfe Mysteries Series

Murder in E Minor
By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
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The Bloodied Ivy
By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A professor’s death lures the reclusive detective and his sidekick to a bucolic crime scene: “Goldsborough does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy” (Booklist).
An academic so conservative he thought Ronald Reagan was a pinko, Hale Markham rules Prescott University like an intellectual tyrant—until the morning he’s found dead at the bottom of... Read more »
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The Last Coincidence
By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
After the heir to a frozen-food fortune gets iced, Nero Wolfe’s right-hand man becomes a suspect: “Goldsborough does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy” (Booklist).
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Fade to Black
By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A soda war explodes into murder for Nero Wolfe, “one of the two or three most beloved detectives in fiction” (Publishers Weekly).
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Archie Goes Home
By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Archie Goodwin leaves Manhattan for the Midwest to find out who put a bullet into a banker.
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Stop the Presses!
By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
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