Books like The Great Legend by Rex Stout

Nero Wolfe investigates a tangled web of deaths and a vanished man, uncovering vengeance, hazing, and hidden motives among a group of men in New York.

A three-novel Nero Wolfe collection featuring the detectives’ keen wit and New York city intrigue.

Maisie Dobbs, a former housemaid turned Cambridge student, serves as a war‑zone nurse during World War I. After the conflict, she begins a career as a private investigator, and her first case unravels a darker secret that forces her to confront the war’s lingering trauma.

Nero Wolfe investigates the murder of his old friend Marko Vukcic, taking him back to Montenegro—where both Yugoslav and Russian communists threaten him and a perilous mountain climb awaits.

In eighteenth‑century London, Jewish ex‑boxer Benjamin Weaver is hired to track debtors and thieves. When his estranged father's mysterious death links him to the nascent stock market, Weaver confronts a cabal of financiers, a desperate prostitute, and his own heritage.

Molly Murphy, a sharp private investigator, infiltrates a New York senator’s home to uncover the truth behind his wife’s mysterious search for a lost son through famed Sorensen sister spiritualists.

Hammer and Velda go on vacation, and Hammer is called to defend a victim in a brutal beating. When a woman turns up naked, Hammer investigates a series of murders in a small town on Long Island.

Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh's Caballero: A Historical Novel, a milestone in Mexican-American and Texas literature written during the 1930s and 1940s, centers on a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican landowner and his family living in the heart of southern Texas during a time of tumultuous change. After covering the American military occupation of South Texas, the story involves the reader in romances between two young lovers from opposing sides during the military conflict of the U.S.-Mexico War. Caballero's young protagonists fall in love but face struggles with race, class, gender and sexual contradictions. An introduction by Jose E. Limon, epilogue by Maria Cotera, and foreword by Thomas H. Kreneck offer a clear picture of the importance of the work to the study of Mexican-American and Texas history and to the feminist critique of culture. This work, long lost in a collection of private papers and unavailable until now, serves as a literary ethnography of South Texas-Mexican folklore customs and traditions.

Nero Wolfe is called to solve the murder of a powerful government official scheduled to address a group of millionaires, a case that rattles New York’s business world.

Nero Wolfe reluctantly investigates a kidnapping and a subsequent murder as his client, Mrs. Vail, fears harm to her husband.

Nero Wolfe is called upon in New York to investigate three murder cases, each wrapped in political intrigue and personal danger, ranging from a left‑wing activist’s death to a homicide involving political refugees, and even a cartoonist’s deadly plot.

A collection of seventeen Rex Stout short stories first published in All-Story Magazine, including his earliest crime fiction and early foreshadowing of the famous Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.