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While investigating the bizarre will of the late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne, who left the bulk of his estate to his mistress and nearly nothing to his family including his three sisters, April, May and June, our astute sleuth Nero Wolfe stumbles upon a legacy of murder. Of course Wolfe has the assistance of Archie Goodwin, his able but opinionated assistant, to help him weave around the roadblocks laid down by Inspector Cramer of the NYPD. Bottom line? It's Nero Wolfe at his best.
Author
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.
