Please pass the guilt by Rex Stout

Wolfe's cases are never all that interesting, and this book is like the others. It all goes round a murder: a man died killed by a bomb put in a drawer in an office. Something like 125 pages more or less later it is revealed that the murderer was the first person to be suspected, the same man that brought Wolfe and most of all Archie's attention on that particular case two weeks old. Peter Oddell died in Mr Browning's office. Mr Browning had a relationship with his secretary Helen Lugos. Kenneth Meer was in love with Miss Lugos, and because of this had tried to kill her. Throughout the book the investigation is focused on things like: who was the bomb for? Browning? It was his office. Oddell? He's the one who died, but who could know for sure he'd been there? Then, the moment Wolfe learns that Miss Lugos used to go there every day alone to check the quantity of Bourbon in the drawer, Wolfe understands it all, like a miracle. Clearly she was the intended victim, and the murderer was the same Kenneth Meer who had started it all by going to a doctor, at first, and then to Wolfe, saying that he could see blood on his hands, like a new Macbeth. Apparently lately Meer went around with a bag, and who knows why Wolfe knows there's a bomb in there. Why? Why did Meer have another bomb? Did he still want to kill Helen? Or was it for himself, if things went too badly? This is not known, as well as other things. How could Wolfe be so sure about it, why Meer used a bomb and why he wanted to kill Helen (is it enough: she didn't care for him, he wanted her too much, and he was crazy?) and most of all why now did he go around with another bomb under his arm?
For the rest there is a very rich client, the widow, and Archie went to her personally hoping to have her as their client because they were short in money during that period.
They spend a lot you know, for the food and the orchids and for themselves. Having succeeded in that, they investigate using the other private investigators they often use: Saul the best, Fred number 2 and then Orrie, not worrying about the money they spent because the client can afford it. The writing was nice, but not as much as the first one I read. That book against the Fbi had practically no case at all, but the writing was funny. Now it is not so funny anymore, and Wolfe's conclusions are not "satisfying" as they should be at the end of the book, where you (well, me) don't have all the answers, just his final victory. It's not explained how he gets there, or all the 'whys'. I'm a bit disappointed, I had liked Archie very much the first book I read, but the more I read of him the less nice he appears to my eyes. Wolfe is arrogant and with a bad attitude, even rude. Archie is arrogant too, and selfish, and they don't care about the case or the victims, only about the money and themselves.