Iconic sleuth Nero Wolfe returns to track down the murderer of a New
York Symphony Orchestra conductor in this Nero Award-winning mystery.
Ever since disgraced associate Orrie Cather's suicide, armchair
detective Nero Wolfe has relished retirement in his Manhattan brownstone
on West Thirty-Fifth Street. Two years after Cather's death, only a
visit from Maria Radovich--and the urging of Wolfe's prize assistant,
Archie Goodwin--could draw the eccentric and reclusive genius back into
business. Maria's uncle, New York Symphony Orchestra conductor Milan
Stevens, formerly known as Milos Stefanovic, spent his youth alongside
Wolfe as a fellow freedom fighter in the mountains of Montenegro. And
now that the maestro has been receiving death threats, Wolfe can't turn
his back on the compatriot who once saved his life.
Though her uncle has dismissed the menacing letters, Maria fears they're
more than the work of a harmless crank. But before Wolfe can attack the
case, Stevens is murdered. The accused is the orchestra's lead
violinist, whose intimate relationship with Maria hit more than a few
sour notes in her uncle's professional circle. But Wolfe knows that when
it comes to murder, nothing is so simple--especially when there are so
many suspects, from newspaper critics and ex-lovers to an assortment of
shady musicians.
Now, in this award-winning novel that carries on the great tradition of
Rex Stout, the irascible and immovable Nero Wolfe is back in the game,
listening for clues and ready to go to war to find a killer.
Murder in E Minor is the 48th book in the Nero Wolfe Mysteries, but you
may enjoy reading the series in any order.
