Too Many Cooks | 
pick(1938) Nero Wolfe leaves the shelter of his NY brownstone for Jim Crow West Virginia and a gathering of master chefs. One of the chefs is murdered and when suspicion falls on one of his friends, Wolfe reluctantly takes the case. The mystery is pretty good, and Stout works in a pointed critique of the racial caste system, which reads a little awkwardly today but has aged better than you'd expect.
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