The army wants Nero Wolfe urgently, but he refuses their clarion call to duty. It takes Archie Goodwin to titillate Wolfeâs taste for crime with two malevolent morsels: a corpse that refuses to rest in peace and a sinister âaccidentâ involving national security. Itâs up to the Grandiose Master himself, Nero Wolfe, to set the traps to catch a pair of wily killersâas Archie lays the bait on the wrong side of the law.
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Introduction by John Lutz
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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.