"Easter Parade" was first published in "Look" with the title "The Easter Parade Murder," and was later republished in book form as part of "And Four to Go." An Easter Parade tempts Wolfe to commit grand larceny—for an orchid, of course—and though that crime goes unpunished, the inevitable murder does not. A shifty character is hired to position himself outside a church to try and snatch an orchid corsage after Easter services, and Archie offers to photograph the proceedings with Wolfe's new camera. But murder intervenes, and the lady wearing the corsage is killed.
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Rex Todhunter Stout (1886 – 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair). The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.
