Itâs a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfeâs hallowed turfâand leave a corpse strangled with Wolfeâs own soup-stained tie. But no sooner does the gourmandizing sleuth clean up this first course of murder than he faces a gun-toting wife who serves up a confession of homicidal intentâonly to become the sole suspect when the corpus delicti is found. Itâs murder à la carte when the third course is served: a cop-hating landlady brings Wolfe counterfeit cashâthat leads to genuine murder. Itâs up to Wolfe to see that the malefactors get their just deserts. Â
Introduction by Stephen Greenleaf
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âIt is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.ââThe New York Times Book Review
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A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of Americaâs greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertainedâand puzzledâmillions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.