When Priscilla Eads, heiress to cotton-towel millions, first pleads for Nero Wolfeโs 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 donโt 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 Priscillaโs case and scrub away the stainโof murder!
Introduction by William DeAndrea
โIt is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.โโThe New York Times Book Review
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A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of Americaโs greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertainedโand puzzledโmillions 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.