Murder strikes thrice in these three baffling mysteries of crime and
detection.
First, Rex Stout's great detective, Nero Wolfe, develops an appetite for
the sweet taste of revenge when someone slips something most foul into
his lunch--in a case motivated by the most "alimentary" of passions.
Then, a couturier's beautiful sister uses Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's man
about town, as her ready-made alibi--and maybe her fall guy--unless
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 detective's West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone that pits him
against a cunning criminal--and the U.S. federal government.