Some critics did not care for the book: one called it the "most overrated Wolfe." But Clifton Fadiman, quoted in a Viking Press advertisement for The Doorbell Rang, thought it was "… the best of all Nero Wolfe stories." The FBI and The FBI Nobody KnowsĪfter reading the condensed magazine version of The Doorbell Rang, John Wayne wrote Rex Stout: "Have always enjoyed your Nero and Archie, but I read your story in the April issue of Argosy. Edgar Hoover clashed and the Bureau was coming under fire for its investigations of Martin Luther King. It was published at a time that the public's attitude toward the FBI was turning critical, not long after Robert F. The Doorbell Rang generated controversy when it was published, due largely to its unflattering portrayal of the FBI, its director and agents. Nero Wolfe is hired to force the FBI to stop wiretapping, tailing and otherwise harassing a woman who gave away 10,000 copies of a book that is critical of the Bureau and its director, J. – Archie Goodwin writing in The Doorbell Rang, chapter 12 He was either gloating or doing research, I didn't know which.
The three guests and I were in the front room, in a tight game of pinochle, and Wolfe was in his one and only chair in the office, reading a book. Plot introduction An hour later we were having a pleasant evening. 7.3 Il pesce più grosso (Radiotelevisione Italiana).
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