The Silent Speaker

The Silent Speaker

Rating

8.5

The Pequod Review:

After a seven year hiatus during World War II, Rex Stout returned in 1946 with The Silent Speaker. The plot is strongly influenced by the war and shows Stout’s populist and pro-consumer views, as the director of the Federal Bureau of Price Regulation is murdered at the Waldorf-Astoria before a planned address to a group of industrialists ("the dirtiest gang of pigs and chiselers on earth").