Murder strikes thrice in these three baffling mysteries of crime and detection.
First, Rex Stoutβs great detective, Nero Wolfe, develops an appetite for the sweet taste of revenge when someone slips something most foul into his lunchβin a case motivated by the most βalimentaryβ of passions. Then, a couturierβs beautiful sister uses Archie Goodwin, Wolfeβs man about town, as her ready-made alibiβand maybe her fall guyβunless 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 detectiveβs West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone that pits him against a cunning criminalβand the U.S. federal government.