A professor's death lures the reclusive detective and his sidekick to
a bucolic crime scene: "Goldsborough does a masterly job with the Wolfe
legacy" (Booklist).
An academic so conservative he thought Ronald Reagan was a pinko, Hale
Markham rules Prescott University like an intellectual tyrant--until the
morning he's found dead at the bottom of one of Prescott's famously
beautiful ravines. Every liberal on campus hated the crotchety old
crank, but which one is responsible for giving Markham his final push to
the right? The case so intrigues the incomparable, reclusive master
detective Nero Wolfe that he takes the unusual step of leaving the
confines of his home. With man of action Archie Goodwin at his side,
Wolfe examines jealous professors, a fanatical assistant, and a
university president with an ego that--like the school itself--will not
stop growing. Though they're far from the city, Wolfe and Goodwin will
find that no back alley is as dangerous as the shadowy corridors of the
Ivy League.