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The Wolfe Pack
Book Discussion Group & Racemes
2013--2014 Schedule

(scroll down for additional information & future book discussion schedules)

Next Discussions by Area

New York City

Monday, May, 20, 2013, 7:00 PM
O'Brien's Bar & Restaurant

The Sin Bin Room (upstairs / not handicapped accessible)
134 W 46th Street
New York, NY 10036
Separate Checks, order from the menu
Preregistration not required

Homicide Trinity
Counterfeit for Murder / Death of a Demon / Eeny, Meeny, Murder, Mo

Death Times Three
Assault on a Brownstone
(An early draft of Counterfeit for Murder with an astounding plot difference! Published in book form for the first time in 1985. If you are unable to locate the sometimes-hard-to-locate Death Times Three, please come anyway! )

SPECIAL SUMMER BOOK DISCUSSION EVENT
Monday, July 22, 7:00 PM
(VENUE TO BE ANNOUNCED ASAP)

Robert Goldsborough's Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries

Mid-Atlantic & Chesapeake Area Book Raceme (MACABRe)

Saturday, June 22, 2013, 4:00 to 6:00 PM
Mt. Washington Tavern
Pimlico Room
(upstairs / sorry, not handicapped accessible)
5700 Newbury St.
Baltimore, MD
Order from the menu / separate checks / plenty of free parking

The League of Frightened Men (1934)
RSVP, directions, further information:
MACABRE@nerowolfe.org or call Elizabeth at 443.465.1556

See the notice on the web site of
The Red Circle, Washington, DC's Sherolockian society:
http://www.redcircledc.org/

Northern New England Raceme (MA, NH, ME, VT)

Sunday, 5/19/2013 , Noon
Acton, MA, Marion's home with pot luck

Not Quite Dead Enough (1944)
RSVP, directions, further information, email Marion

Southern New England Raceme (CT & RI)

Tuesday, 5/14/2013, 6:30 PM
Prosser Public Library
1 Tunxis Avenue
Bloomfield, CT

Fer-De-Lance (1934)
Register at the Library (860-243-9721) and let them know if you need a copy of the book.
For directions and further information email Marilyn.

The moderator will lead the conversation, which can range from a discussion of the ridiculous to the subtle. Bring your opinions, but with an open mind, and join us for interesting, and perhaps even heated, discussion. Join us for a stimulating evening.

Be sure to review the Book Discussion Guidelines
prior to attending (or moderating) a discussion.

Click a title on this page, or any title on the Corpus Page/Alphabetically or Corpus Page/Chronologically to view some great cover art, further information regarding novel and novella reviews, quotations, any interesting background data, and publication history.

Read Les Blatt's blog, Classic Mysteries: Of Dinner, Discussion and a Doxy, which talks about the July, 2010, book discussion of Death of a Doxy.

Want to start a raceme?*

The kind with Wolfe on the Pistil? Click here for some cool ideas for getting started with a local chapter of The Wolfe Pack and holding your own Book Discussions locally.

*An elongated cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first, as with orchids, snapdragons, etc."

Photos from Inaugural Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Raceme (MACABRe)

John Baesch & Pat Villacrusis	Seated: John Baesch Standing, clockwise: Evelyn Herzog, Pat Villacrusis, Elizabeth de Mozenette	Elizabeth de Mozenette & Evelyn Herzog

The Metro NYC Book Discussion Schedule 2013 -- 2014

Separate Checks, no minimum, no RSVP required
Usually held at Slattery's Midtown Pub (8 E. 3th Street, 2nd floor)

January (4th Monday of the Month due to M. L. King Birthday holiday)

March (3rd Monday except when St. Patrick's Day is on a Monday)

May (3rd Monday)

September (3rd Monday) except when Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur occur at that time)

December (Friday preceding the 1st Saturday of December, as part of the annual Black Orchid Weekend)

In addition there may be a special summer book discussion. Check here in early May or June.

(check back periodically for schedule revisions)

Books are listed in publication date order.
(Since novellas were first published in magazines, their original publication date is earlier than their publication book format.
Therefore, a book that is a novella collection is listed prior to a novel published in the same year.)
Scroll down your Raceme's column to find its book discussion schedule.

Year	Book Title (in book pub. date sequence)	READING DATES (if necessary, scroll down for this year's)
		No. NE	So. NE	MACABRe	NYC Metro (we started our 2nd cycle of reading the corpus in 2006)
1934	Fer-de-Lance	11/2011	5/14/2013	4/27/2013	2006-2007
1935	League of Frightened Men, The	1/2012	6/25/2013	6/22/2013	12/3/2010 (with movie)
1936	Rubber Band, The	3/2012		8/24/2013 (tentative)	2006-2007
1937	Red Box, The	5/2012		10/26/2013	2006-2007
1938	Too Many Cooks	7/2012		12/28/2013	2006-2007
1939	Some Buried Caesar	9/2012			2006-2007
1940	Over My Dead Body	11/2012			2006-2007
1940	Where There's a Will	3/2013			2006-2007
1942	Black Orchids (Black Orchids / Cordially Invited to Meet Death)	3/24/2013			2006-2007
1944	Not Quite Dead Enough Booby Trap / Not Quite Dead Enough	5/19/2013			2006-2007
1946	Silent Speaker, The	7/2013			1/28/2008
1947	Too Many Women	9/2013			3/24/2008
1948	And Be A Villain	11/2013			5/19/2008
1949	Trouble in Triplicate Before I Die / Help Wanted, Male / Instead of Evidence	1/2014			9/27/2007
1949	Second Confession, The				9/15/2008
1950	Three Doors to Death Door to Death / Man Alive / Omit Flowers				3/16/2009
1950	In the Best Families				1/26/2009
1951	Curtains for Three Bullet for One / Disguise for Murder / Gun with Wings, The				5/18/2009
1951	Murder by the Book				9/21/2009
1952	Triple Jeopardy Cop Killer, The / Home to Roost / Squirt and the Monkey, The				1/25/2010
1952	Prisoner's Base				12/5/2009
1953	Golden Spiders, The				9/15/2008
1954	Three Men Out Invitation to Murder / This Won't Kill You / Zero Clue, The				5/17/2010
1954	Black Mountain, The				3/2010
1955	Before Midnight				9/20/2010
1956	Three Witnesses Die Like a Dog / Next Witness, The / When a Man Murders				3/21/2011
1956	Might As Well Be Dead				1/24/2011
1957	Three for the Chair Immune to Murder / Too Many Detectives / Window for Death, A				9/19/2011
1957	If Death Ever Slept				5/16/2011
1958	And Four to Go A Christmas Party Easter Parade / Fourth of July Picnic / Murder is No Joke				12/2/2011 1/23/2012
1958	Champagne for One				3/19/2012
1959	Plot It Yourself				5/21/2012
1960	Three at Wolfe's Door Poison a la Carte Method Three for Murder / Rodeo Murder, The				11/30/2012 1/28/2013
1960	Too Many Clients				9/24/2012
1961	Final Deduction, The				3/18/2013
1961	Homicide Trinity Counterfeit for Murder / Death of a Demon / Eeny, Meeny, Murder, Mo Death Times Three Assault on a Brownstone (a reworking of Counterfeit for Murder)				5/20/2013
1962	Gambit				9/16/2013
1963	Mother Hunt, The				3/24/2014
1964	Right To Die, A				5/19/2014
1965	Trio for Blunt Instruments Murder is Corny with showing of A&E Episode Blood Will Tell / Kill Now, Pay Later /				12/6/2013 1/27/2014
1965	Doorbell Rang, The				9/22/2014
1966	Death of a Doxy				7/19/2010 (featuring "Imagination & Invention" from the A&E TV series production)
1968	Father Hunt, The				12/5/2014
1969	Death of a Dude				1/26/2015
1973	Please Pass the Guilt				3/16/2015
1975	Family Affair, A				5/18/2015
1977 1985	Corsage (CORS) Bitter End (Collector's pricing) Death Times Three ~~Assault on a Brownstone~~ (covered as part of Homicide Trinity / Counterfeit for Murder (of which it is an early version)) / Bitter End ( a reworking of the Tecumseh Fox mystery, Bad for Business ) / Frame Up for Murder (an early version of Murder is No Joke]				9/21/2015
1940	Bad for Business (A Tecumseh Fox Mystery)
1958	And Four to Go Murder is No Joke / ~~A Christmas Party / Easter Parade / Fourth of July Picnic /~~
2012	Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries by Robert Goldsborough				July 22, 2013

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