Crimeline

A bidding war for his services interrupts Nero Wolfe's attempts to solve the case of the businessman who died in his love nest--a case in which the police seem oddly uninterested....

Three murder cases place arrogant, gormandizing sleuth Archie Goodwin at an exclusive dinner party where arsenic is served, in a wandering cab with a dead lady driver, and at a rodeo championship....

The crime scene showed that acunning mind and a passionate hatred lay behindthe killing of Lisa Stillwell. But New Scotland Yardwould not have been called to this remoteHampshire village if the baby-sitter's employer hadn'tbeen Gale Grayson, a self-exiled American with asuspicious past. Three years before, Chief InspectorDaniel Halford had watched...

Radio talk show host Madeline Fraser's worst nightmare comes true when one of her on-air guests collapses at the mike after drinking a glass of the sponsor's beverage.From the Paperback edition....

Called upon to investigate a sinister "e;accident"e; involving national security, Nero Wolfe must set the traps that will catch the pair of wily killers responsible....

From the author hailed as an important talent, a storytelling writer of poetic narrative power (Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a dazzling novel of psychological suspense.This is the darkest story I've ever heard. With these haunting words, Thomas H. Cook begins a tale of love and its aftermath, of a town sent reeling from a moment of...