Plot It Yourself
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Plot It Yourself （British title Murder in Style） is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1959, and also collected in the omnibus volume Kings Full of Aces （Viking 1969）.
I stopped because he was having a fit.
He had closed his right hand to make a fist and was hitting the desk with it, and he was bellowing.
He was roaring something in a language that was probably the one he had used as a boy in Montenegro, the one that he and Marko Vukcic had sometimes talked.
Fritz, entering with beer, stopped and looked at me reproachfully.
Wolfe quit bellowing as abruptly as he had started, glared at Fritz, and said coldly, "Take that back. I don't want it." "But it will do – " "Take it back. I
shall drink no beer until I get my fingers around that creature's throat." — Nero Wolfe on learning of yet another murder, in Plot It Yourself, chapter 13.
A group of authors and publishers hires Nero Wolfe to investigate a series of plagiarism claims.
Wolfe, by his own admission, bungles the investigation so badly that three murders result.
In Plot It Yourself, Stout draws on his lengthy experience with book publishers, with authors （via, for example, his presidency of the Authors Guild）, and with the writing process itself.
Apart from the series' continuing characters, all the players in the book are directly associated with the publishing industry.
Stout adds as subtext his take on the peculiar relationship between book authors and book publishers — part symbiosis, part animosity.
Stout himself experienced at least one instance of contentious relations with his publishers.
Someone has been getting away with a different spin on plagiarism.
It's the old scam – an unsuccessful author stealing ideas from an established source – but it's being worked differently.
Now, the plagiarists are cl...
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