When a powerful government official scheduled to speak to a group of millionaire business men turns up dead, it is an event worthy of the notice of the great Nero Wolfe. Balancing on the edge of finan…
Celebrated sleuth Nero Wolfe is renowned for cracking tough cases -- and never leaving his New York apartment where he quaffs beer and cultivates orchids. For legwork, Wolfe employs a fast-talking, wi…
It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found raped and savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church…
The young wife of an aging marquis is found murdered in the arms of the Prince Regent. Around her neck lies a necklace said to have been worn by Druid priestesses-that is, unti…
Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora Poste, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country r…
Two Nero Wolfe novellas for the price of one! The first is "Not Quite Dead Enough" which came out in 1942 and lent its name to the collection, and the second is "Booby Trap" from 1944.
