Prisoner's Base (Nero Wolfe)

ISBN: 0553242695

Author: Stout, Rex

Condition: New

When Priscilla Eads, heiress to cotton-towel millions, first pleads for Nero Wolfes assistance, the portly detective decides to wash his hands of a case that has more than its share of dirty laundry. Just hours later Miss Eads and her maid are found strangled to death under circumstances that dont quite wash. Now, to the dismay of a greedy board of directors and a fortune-hunting South American ex-husband, the astute Wolfe feels, on second thought, a certain responsibility to dip into Priscillas case and scrub away the stain-of murder!Introduction by William DeAndreaIt is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.-The New York Times Book ReviewA grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of Americas greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertained-and puzzled-millions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.