The army wants Nero Wolfe urgently, but he refuses their clarion call to
duty. It takes Archie Goodwin to titillate Wolfe's taste for crime with
two malevolent morsels: a corpse that refuses to rest in peace and a
sinister "accident" involving national security. It's up to the
Grandiose Master himself, Nero Wolfe, to set the traps to catch a pair
of wily killers--as Archie lays the bait on the wrong side of the law.
Introduction by John Lutz
"It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has
entered our folklore."--The New York Times Book Review
A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest
mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the
greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe
have entertained--and puzzled--millions 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.