When a Balkan beauty gets in trouble over some missing diamonds, whom
else can she turn to but the world-famous Nero Wolfe? Especially since
she claims to be Wolfe's long lost daughter! The stakes are suddenly
raised when a student at this woman's fencing school ends up dead after
a pointed lesson. As Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, thrust and parry
into a tangle of documents, identities and international intrigue,
another student body turns up, expertly skewered through the heart. Is
Wolfe's long lost daughter the black sheep of the family, a hot-blooded
mistress of murder?
"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.