Murder strikes thrice in these three baffling mysteries of crime and detection.
First, Rex Stoutâs great detective, Nero Wolfe, develops an appetite for the sweet taste of revenge when someone slips something most foul into his lunchâin a case motivated by the most âalimentaryâ of passions. Then, a couturierâs beautiful sister uses Archie Goodwin, Wolfeâs man about town, as her ready-made alibiâand maybe her fall guyâunless Wolfe can spot the loose ends in a nearly seamless crime. Finally, Wolfe has a run-in with the law after a mysterious old woman leaves a package at the detectiveâs West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone that pits him against a cunning criminalâand the U.S. federal government.