Three witnesses hold all the clues in three crimes of passion that
have even Nero Wolfe guessing to the very end.
Did the dead millionaire who suddenly came back to life--only to end up
dead again--write his own death warrant years before? Will the black
Labrador retriever who follows Archie home prove that man's best friend
is a killer's worst enemy? And in a case involving a telephone answering
service with three very untalkative operators, could the great detective
himself be the witness who will save an innocent man from the chair?
Introduction by Susan Conant
"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.