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Its a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfes hallowed turfand leave a corpse strangled with Wolfes 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 intentonly to become the sole suspect when the corpus delicti is found. Its murder la carte when the third course is served: a cop-hating landlady brings Wolfe counterfeit cashthat leads to genuine murder. Its up to Wolfe to see that the malefactors get their just deserts.
Introduction by Stephen Greenleaf
It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.The New York Times Book Review
A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of Americas greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertainedand puzzledmillions 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.
