"Murder Is No Joke" was published in book form with this title in "And Four To Go," but was originally titled "Frame-Up for Murder" and serialized in "The Saturday Evening Post." Later an expanded version with alternate characterization was reprinted in the book "Death Times Three." "Murder Is No Joke" brings together past and present. A member of the French Resistance during World War II was at that time married to another member. After the war, he learns that his wife and her two brothers had been traitors to the cause. He murders both men, but the wife escapes him. He then comes to the United States where he becomes, in the words of Wolfe, “an illustrious dressmaker” and finds that his ex-wife who, with a different name, has insinuated herself in his operation. She will be found dead in her office after a heated telephone exchange with Wolfe, who ends up nailing two killings on one murderer.