Nero Wolfe, a passionate orchid collector, a great gourmet, a beer lover, and a brilliant detective, practically never leaves home. He solves every crime based on facts gathered by Archie Goodwin—his charming, ironic assistant with an excellent memory. Thanks to the famous detective, a kidnapped husband of a millionaire safely returns home, but the very next day he is found pinned beneath a statue of Benjamin Franklin in the home library… Coincidence or murder?…
Besides the novels “Too Many Clients” and “The Final Solution,” the book includes three novellas in which Wolfe, furious that someone strangled a visitor in his office—using his very own tie—must not only find the killer, but also, at the request of an eccentric client, rub the police of its nose.