Robert Goldsborough interviewed at Kirkus for new Nero Wolfe book
Murder in the Ball Park, the latest Nero Wolfe mystery from Robert Goldsborough, comes out Tuesday. In anticipation of the release, J. Kingston Pierce interviewed Goldsborough for Kirkus.
How did you come to pen your first Wolfe/Goodwin novel, Murder in E Minor?
My mother read Rex Stout’s obituary in the Chicago Tribune and said something like, “Oh, now there aren’t going to be any more Nero Wolfe stories.” I thought, “Maybe there could be one more,” and I began writing E Minor as a book for one person, my mother. I gave it to her for Christmas in 1978 as a bound typescript, and that is how it remained until its eventual publication by Bantam Books eight or so years later.
Rex Stout passed away in October 1975. You took up the job of continuing his Wolfe series beyond E Minoronly a decade later. Were you intimidated by the task?
Not intimidated, but certainly to a degree apprehensive. Here I was, taking on the writing about icons whom thousands of readers cherished. I knew I had better get the characterizations and the details right, or I would hear about it. Overall, I got positive marks, although a few readers spotted some inconsistencies. I acknowledged these and did some mea culpas.
Click here to read the interview at Kirkus.
And as an added bonus, Pierce posted the full interview over at The Rap Sheet, in case you want to dig into a longer version.
Murder in the Ball Park comes out Tuesday, as a paperback and an eBook. Pre-order your copy here!
