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  The Doorbell Rang (a Nero Wolfe mystery) Book Review:   When I started as librarian here at SSS, one of the first things I did was to search the database for Nero Wolfe books. The results? Zero! No titles!! Not even one!!! What an intolerable situation. A library with none of Rex Stout’s 46 iconic mysteries is like a baseball game with no hotdogs, or a wedding banquet with no wine. Needless to say, I spent a little of my budget on several of these sparky who-dun-its, one of which I highlight here. “The Doorbell Rang” is Nero Wolfe at his super-sleuthing best. Eccentric, lazy, corpulently gluttonous, and stunningly brilliant, the private detective who rarely leaves home and never on business takes on the seemingly impossible job of forcing the FBI to heel like an unruly dog on behalf of a fabulously rich client who can afford to pay… a lot! And of course, the brash, energetic confidential assistant Archie Goodwin is on hand to do all the real work so Wolfe is free to eat, ten...

  Book Review: “This is the most important book of 2022.” Dr. Robert Malone “Desmet shows us how to reclaim our humanity in an increasingly dehumanized and mechanized world.” Dr. Reiner Fuellmich Hands down my favorite read for many years!! If you have been at all alarmed at the strange course of events over the past few ‘corona’ years, read this book. If the willing relinquishment globally of many of our most basic rights and freedoms has mystified you, read this book. If you have been confused at the avalanche of obvious lies and misinformation passed off as fact by scientists, politicians, and conspiracy theorists alike, read this book. If you’ve wondered why  personal autonomy,  honest questioning, and public debate have become  transgressions  punishable by excommunication from general society, read this book. And if you ask yourself, “Are we finished with the crazy now that covid is done?”, well, again, read this book. Desmet does an admirable jo...