"Murder Is No Joke,” a workaday whodunit in a couturier’s salon, is a sample, par excellence, of the master’s inimitable ability to relate the unrelated — put the round peg in the square hole, so to speak — and nail two killings on one...
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Both Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are at their furious best when a murder is committed with Archie’s gun and the client lies to the cops, indicating that Goodwin is the prime suspect. Inspector Cramer threatens to cancel Wolfe’s detective...
Leaving the church, Mrs. Bynoe seemed unaware of the cameras — and of...
Nero Wolfe can’t stand Leo Heller, a mathematician who uses operations research to solve mysteries and seems to be superseding Wolfe’s own reputation. But then Heller is murdered by one of his clients. He managed to leave a cryptic message that...
In this story Nero Wolfe investigates the murders of Dazy Perrit, an underworld...
The guests had seemed full of good will — until their host was poisoned. Then the truth began to merge, and even Wolfe was...
In “Bullet for One,” a man with a lot of enemies is shot dead while riding his horse in the early morning in Central Park; five of the six suspects believe the sixth man is the culprit, but he’s got an ironclad...
The famous sleuth, involved in a wire-tapping investigation, finds himself prime suspect in the murder of a deceptive...
Faith Usher tells anyone willing to listen that she wants to kill herself. So when she dies after drinking champagne at the annual gala for unwed mothers, everyone insists that it was suicide. Everyone except Archie Goodwin, the perennial wise...
Nero Wolfe agreed to cook the Ambassador’s trout — not to catch the diplomat’s...