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The Doorbell Rang
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Rex Stout's twenty-eighth Nero Wolfe novel, published in 1965.Spurred by a retainer check for $100,000, Nero Wolfe accepts Rachel Bruner's request to get the FBI to stop tailing her. Bruner, like Wolfe, has read Fred J. Cook's The FBI Nobody Knows, a scathing indictment of the organization's abuses under J. Edgar Hoover; unlike Wolfe, Bruner sent 10,000 copies of the book to prominent figures across the country, and the Bureau has been tailing and harassing her in response. Now forced to act as though the brownstone and its inhabitants are under constant surveillance, Wolfe and Archie find no foothold until Inspector Cramer relays the police's investigation into the murder of freelance journalist Morris Althaus; Althaus had been writing a series of articles about the FBI, which were missing from his apartment, and three FBI agents were seen leaving the scene on the night of the murder. Rather than assume the FBI killed Althaus, Wolfe elects to assume that Bureau agents did not kill him, but investigates while openly suggesting they did. As Wolfe sets a trap for the FBI, he investigates those closest to Althaus - and Bruner - in order to ensure that Cramer gets his collar while also fulfilling Bruner's request as client.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A Nero Wolfe Mystery adapted The Doorbell Rang as the pilot of their series proper, succeeding the made-for-TV film of The Golden Spiders. | |
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Body Double: As part of his trap for the FBI, Wolfe smuggles two actors into the brownstone to impersonate himself and Archie. | |
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Human Mail: Wolfe smuggles Saul, Fred, Orrie, and the two actors into the brownstone by mailing them in orchid crates. | |
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Asshole Victim: While a lesser example compared to some from the Nero Wolfe canon, Morris Althaus does appear to have been a rather egotistical lothario with a rather callous attitude towards wooing and dumping women. | |
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Jurisdiction Friction: Cramer is convinced FBI agents murdered Morris Althaus; the FBI is doing all they can to interfere with the investigation, including concealing the bullet that killed him. | |
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