13 must-read crime books like Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5) by Rex Stout

Cover of Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5) by Rex Stout

Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

By: Rex Stout

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

The guest at a gathering of the greatest chefs in the world, Nero Wolfe must practice his own trade…

If you liked the crime plot in Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5) by Rex Stout , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

1. The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Do you read crime fiction?"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"They do a certain amount of mischief, they're an almighty nuisance, but as murderers I've no real faith in the British anarchist."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"... In our midst—in our very midst, Matron—are secret agents, secret societies, powers of evil known to the Yard but unsuspected by the general public. Mercifully so." He stopped short, folded his ar…"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

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2. The Last Coincidence

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Playboy Sparky Linville has a nasty notion of fun and games. But when he picks popular Noreen James… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's The Last Coincidence book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. Death on Deadline

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Format: 352 pages,

The chief shareholder in the New York Gazette was appalled when family divisons made it seem inevit… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Death on Deadline book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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4. The Bloodied Ivy

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin go back to college to investigate a campus death in this first paperb… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's The Bloodied Ivy book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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5. Murder in E Minor

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a maestro is murdered, Archie is flabbergasted when the gargantuan gourmet detective lifts him… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Murder in E Minor book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13) by Ngaio Marsh

6. Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.09

Format: 129 pages,

One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patrioti… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. Murder in the Ball Park (Nero Wolfe Novels by Robert Goldsborough #9)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Wolfe earns a big league call-up after a senator gets taken out at the ball game Archie Goodwin and… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Murder in the Ball Park (Nero Wolfe Novels by Robert Goldsborough #9) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery
  • detective
  • american
  • fiction
Cover of Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8) by Ngaio Marsh

8. Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It was planned as an act of a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. … read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"It's like one of those affairs in books," said Bailey disgustedly."Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it." "What do you say, Roper?" said Alleyn. "To my way of thinkin…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

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9. Silver Spire

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

For the sixth time Robert Goldsborough invites us into Nero Wolfe's West Thirty-fifth Street browns… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Silver Spire book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5) by Rex Stout

10. Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

By: Rex Stout

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

The guest at a gathering of the greatest chefs in the world, Nero Wolfe must practice his own trade… read more

Similar categories in Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • american
  • food
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

11. Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.76

Format: 180 pages,

To become part of the Nero Wolfe legend, Archie Goodwin must prove his worth Archie Goodwin comes t… read more

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12. Maigret Afraid

By: Georges Simenon , None

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

Maigret stumbles upon a series of murders in Fontenay-le-Comte while visiting an old school friend.… read more

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13. The Missing Heiress (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries #17)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.05

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

The daughter of a steel magnate disappears, and Nero and Archie must forge ahead with an investigat… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's The Missing Heiress (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries #17) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery
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14. Trouble at the Brownstone (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #16)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.13

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Archie Goodwin goes undercover on the waterfront in a new mystery by the author who “does a masterl… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Trouble at the Brownstone (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #16) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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15. The Battered Badge (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries #13)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.91

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A shake-up in the NYPD homicide squad following a high-profile murder is bad for business for priva… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's The Battered Badge (Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries #13) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery
  • detective
  • fiction
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16. The Missing Chapter (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #7)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.94

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

When a loudmouthed, arrogant author is silenced, the reclusive master detective Nero Wolfe looks fo… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's The Missing Chapter (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #7) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • detective
  • american
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Death of an Art Collector (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #14) by Robert Goldsborough

17. Death of an Art Collector (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #14)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.75

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

An art hoarder’s suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe. No matter how fabulously h… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Death of an Art Collector (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #14) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Archie in the Crosshairs (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #10) by Robert Goldsborough

18. Archie in the Crosshairs (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #10)

By: Robert Goldsborough

4.04

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

When Archie Goodwin’s life is threatened, Wolfe must find the gunman or lose his right-hand man … read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Archie in the Crosshairs (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #10) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Fade to Black (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #5) by Robert Goldsborough

19. Fade to Black (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #5)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.85

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

For the men of Madison Avenue, the battle between soft-drink giants Cherr-o-key and AmeriCherry see… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Fade to Black (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #5) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Archie Goes Home (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #15) by Robert Goldsborough

20. Archie Goes Home (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #15)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.94

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Archie Goodwin leaves Manhattan for the Midwest to find out who put a bullet into a banker. Archie … read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Archie Goes Home (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #15) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Stop the Presses! (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #11) by Robert Goldsborough

21. Stop the Presses! (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #11)

By: Robert Goldsborough

3.82

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are tasked with protecting the most hated columnist in New York City … read more

Similar categories in Robert Goldsborough's Stop the Presses! (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #11) book and Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction

18 Best fiction books like Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe, #5) by Rex Stout

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The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Last Coincidence

Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Death on Deadline

Robert Goldsborough

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Bloodied Ivy

Robert Goldsborough

3.97

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19 Top fiction books like The Missing Chapter (Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Mysteries, #7) by Robert Goldsborough

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The Final Deduction (Nero Wolfe, #35)

Rex Stout

4.19

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Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)

Rex Stout , Loren D. Estleman

3.97

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Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

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Death of a Dude (Nero Wolfe, #44)

Rex Stout , Don Coldsmith

3.95

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