"Fer-de-lance" on esimene Rex Stouti kirjutatud Nero Wolfe´i romaan, mis avaldati aastal 1934. Maria Maffei, ühe Wolfe´i kaastöötaja perekonnasõber, palkab Wolfe´i otsima enda kadunud venda Carlot. Kuigi juhtum Wolfe´ile eriti ei meeldi,...
It started as the case of the disappearing driver. Stephane Olger was hitchhiking to Los Angeles when the accident happened. When it was over she was found unconscious behind the wheel — alone. There was a manslaughter charge against...
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...
Any hint of budding literary genius was notably absent from little Johnny’s English paper. But a sinister hint of something else was there — which thrust his pretty schoolmarm into a career of amateur sleuthing and landed her on dangerous ground...
De Maupassant once wrote: “There is nothing more beautiful and honorable than killing.”
The Bride Wore Black offers grim and absorbing proof of that idea.
Four men are murdered. Each time a woman they have never known comes into their...