The Doorbell Rang

Hetty Ennis, an untidy elderly landlady of an old house, rents rooms to actors—sometimes for a token fee, and sometimes for free. One day, she finds a bundle of counterfeit twenty-dollar bills at her place and decides to ask for help from Nero Wolfe. However, his assistant, Archie Goodwin, asks her to come back later.

When Miss Ennis still doesn’t show up, Archie learns that she was killed outright by a car. Convinced it wasn’t an accident, he sets out to find and unmask the person responsible at any cost.