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Please pass the guilt: a Nero Wolfe novel
Par Rex Stout. 1973
Dr. Vollmer has asked Nero Wolfe to look into the case of a man who refuses to give his real…
name but continually returns to a psychiatric clinic claiming he keeps washing his hands because they have blood on them. Is he in any way connected to the explosion of a bomb in the office of a potential candidate for the presidency of a large firm? The bomb killed another man and no one is certain who the intended victim wasTropic of deceit
Par Christopher Larson. 1993
The same day the U.S. consul in Navidad Jim Biggins receives a threat to his life while looking into the…
puzzling death of an American tourist, he also receives an unexpected guest. Vivacious young Bobbi Lyons from Jim's New York past needs a job and a place to stay. Jim's friend in the CIA reluctantly hires Bobbi when she wins the admiration of a key figure in the growing mystery surrounding the recent death. Strong language and violenceThe horse you came in on
Par Martha Grimes. 1993
Scotland Yard's Jury is asked by an old acquaintance to go to Baltimore to investigate a young man's death. He…
takes along Wiggins and his friend Plant who has, coincidentally, been summoned by a Baltimore author friend whose student was murdered while researching Poe. Following conveniently left clues suggesting that the two murders and one more are connected, the three immerse themselves in humorous Baltimore sleuthing. Some strong languageThe moving target: a Lew Archer novel
Par Ross Macdonald. 1949
Investigator Lew Archer is hired by paraplegic Mrs. Sampson to find her much older husband. He's only been missing a…
day, but she doesn't want him to get drunk and give away more of the money she hopes to acquire when she outlives him. Accompanying Archer are Mr. Sampson's daughter and pilot. As Archer sniffs out a weak clue that leads to a suspicious Hollywood crowd, a ransom note arrives. Strong language and violenceJustice for some
Par Kate Wilhelm. 1993
Sarah Drexler takes a break from filling her deceased husband's judgeship in Oregon and travels to California for a family…
reunion. There she finds her son, her daughter, and her father are all very secretive. After her father's body is found floating in the pool, Sarah learns that he had hired a detective. When the detective is found murdered, Sarah's entire family begins to look suspicious. Some strong language and some violenceNine lives to murder
Par Marian Babson. 1992
Leading Shakespearean actor Winstanley Fortescue awakens in great pain. Was it a heart attack or was he in an accident?…
As he cautiously stretches his limbs he gasps in horror to see paws: he has become the stage cat, Monty! When he learns that his body (the Instrument) is in the hospital, Win sets out in Monty's body to learn just what happened. Some strong languageNot quite dead enough
Par Rex Stout. 1942
Archie Goodwin, now a major in the army, has been ordered to convince Nero Wolfe to assist the army in…
solving a crime. But before Archie can persuade Wolfe to look into the crime, Archie finds himself accused of murder. When a corpse refuses to rest in peace, and Captain Albert Cross of Military Intelligence "accidentally" falls from his hotel balcony, Nero Wolfe agrees to get involvedMurder by the numbers: an Eliot Ness novel
Par Max Collins. 1993
Cleveland, Ohio, 1938. Five years ago, black cop Toussaint Johnson watched as numbers king Rufus Murphy, for whom he was…
doing some "unofficial" work, was shot to death. Eliot Ness, director of public safety, has a reputation for putting bad guys in jail, and he is counting on Johnson's help in shutting down the numbers racket. But he doesn't know that Johnson was once "on the pad." Strong language and some violenceToo many clients: a Nero Wolfe mystery
Par Rex Stout. 1960
The body in the cornflakes
Par K. K Beck. 1992
Just before the grand reopening of his Galaxy Foods supermarket, old Karl Krogstad announces his engagement to the store's television…
model--Ginger of the enhanced bustline. When Ginger's body is found in the cornflakes display, assistant manager Ted Constantino suspects everyone: Karl's daughter-in-law, who thinks Ginger slept with her husband, Junior; Junior himself; and their spoiled son Lance, who wants the store. Some strong languagePrisoner's base
Par Rex Stout. 1952
A young woman has come knocking on Nero Wolfe's door asking for a place to stay for a week--until June…
30. She will not give her name or explain why she wishes to stay. Shortly thereafter Perry Helmar, guardian of Priscilla Eads, the heiress to cotton-towel millions, arrives and asks for Wolfe's help in finding Priscilla. The next morning Priscilla and her maid are found strangled. Wolfe reluctantly agrees to investigateTrouble in triplicate: a Nero Wolfe mystery
Par Rex Stout. 1993
Three previously published short novels about the orchid-growing gourmet detective Nero Wolfe. In Before I Die, a gangster wants Wolfe…
to handle a blackmailer. Help Wanted, Male involves a client who waits too long to look for help. In Instead of Evidence, a man predicts his own murder and tells Wolfe who the murderer will beThe grub-and-stakers house a haunt
Par Alisa Craig. 1993
Widow Zilla Trott is in her kitchen making a cup of camomile tea for herself and her cat when the…
ghost of Hiram Jellyby suddenly appears. He was murdered some years ago, and he wants Zilla to find his bones and bury them decently so he can rest in peace. Hiram also wants her to look for a wooden box of gold that he buried. When Zilla and her friends begin digging, they uncover more than bones and goldDead man's island
Par Carolyn Hart. 1993
Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins (Henrie O.) is surprised to be summoned by her long-ago lover, powerful Chase Prescott.…
Chase has also invited all of his close associates and family to the island he owns to determine with Henrie O. which of them tried to murder him. This task is made more difficult when a repeat of the hurricane that gave Dead Man's Island its name occurs. Strong language and violenceFer-de-Lance
Par Rex Stout. 1934
Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin make their debut in this first of many tales about the corpulent master sleuth who…
operates out of a New York brownstone office. When Wolfe receives the gift of a deadly snake, his assistant suspects that they are onto the clever person who murdered an Italian immigrant and a college president, although he cannot imagine what connection there may beStrawgirl
Par Abigail Padgett. 1994
Bo Bradley is a San Diego child-abuse investigator who is struggling with manic depression. She is assigned the case of…
Samantha, a three-year-old who dies after hemorrhaging. The police suspect the mother's live-in anthropologist boyfriend, Paul, who has taken Samantha's sister and fled. Although Paul is a member of an unusual group, Bo is uneasy with the cult motive and searches for another suspect. Strong language and some violenceA question of guilt: a novel
Par Frances Fyfield. 1988
The latest object of widowed, unloved Eileen Cartwright's adoration is her married solicitor. When she convinces financially desperate part-time P.I.…
Stanislaus Jaskowski to kill the solicitor's wife, Jaskowski is quickly caught and tells all. As prosecutor Helen West and Detective Geoffrey Bailey build their case against her, Cartwright calmly concocts a plan of revenge against her new opponents. Strong language and violenceThe silent speaker: a Nero Wolfe mystery
Par Rex Stout. 1946
Murder on the Potomac
Par Margaret Truman. 1994
When the body of Pauline Juris, secretary to Wendell Tierney, is found alongside the Potomac River, Tierney seeks the advice…
of law professor Mac Smith. Incriminating evidence in the form of love letters turns up in Pauline's apartment. It seems that more than one of the Tierneys is suspect. Meanwhile they all take part in a playacting group that re-creates old Washington murders. Some strong language. BestsellerDeath among the dons
Par Janet Neel. 1994
Francesca Wilson McLeish, wife of police superintendent John McLeish, is at home on maternity leave. But the baby cries all…
the time, and Francesca is miserable. When Dr. Judith Symonds, warden of Gladstone College, is murdered, the college hires Francesca as bursar to straighten out suspect accounts. Then someone else dies, and Francesca almost becomes a victim herself