Pierre Dacoss, the waiter at the “Rooster Man” restaurant, who turned to the famous private detective Nero Wolfe for help, dies in Wolfe’s house as a result of an explosion of a homemade bomb disguised as a cigar labeled “Don Pedro, Honduras.”
For Wolfe, the case becomes “a family affair”—he is ready to investigate Dacoss’s murder without any fee, because it became a brazen challenge and an outrageous personal insult to the greatest detective of the twentieth century.