| Fer-de-Lance | Nero Wolfe's first recorded case starts when Fred Durkin asks Wolfe to help his wife's friend, Maria Maffei, find her missing brother Carlo. This leads to Wolfe wagering the Westchester County District Attorney $10,000 that the death of Peter Oliver Barstow, a prominent university president, while playing golf was not due to a heart attack but murder. | |
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| The League of Frightened Men | The League is a group of men bound together by complicity in the crippling of Paul Chapman in a hazing accident at Harvard 25 years earlier. When members of the group start dying mysteriously they seek help from Wolfe. Wolfe initially turns the case down, but two things revive his interest: his current financial state and the fact during a trial for writing an obscene book Chapman stated he wrote the book in order to talk about a murder he had committed. | |
| The Rubber Band | The pledge of the rubber band began in Silver City, Nevada, at the turn of the century. | |
| The Red Box | ||
| Too Many Cooks | ||
| Some Buried Caesar | ||
| Over My Dead Body | ||
| Where There's a Will | ||
| Black Orchids | Black Orchids | Archie Goodwin has troubles too. Like the day that Nero Wolfe, whose passion was horticulture, discovered that there were only three black orchids in the world - and they belonged to someone else! |
| Cordially Invited to Meet Death | Archie Goodwin has troubles too. Like the day that Nero Wolfe, whose | |
| Not Quite Dead Enough | ||
| The Silent Speaker | ||
| Too Many Women | ||
| And Be a Villain | ||
| Trouble in Triplicate | Before I Die | |
| Help Wanted, Male | ||
| Instead of Evidence | ||
| The Second Confession | ||
| Three Doors to Death | Man Alive | |
| Omit Flowers | ||
| Door to Death | ||
| In the Best Families | ||
| Curtains for Three | The Gun with Wings | |
| Bullet for One | ||
| Diagnosis for Murder | ||
| Murder by the Book | ||
| Triple Jeopardy | Home to Roost | |
| The Cop Killer | ||
| The Squirt and the Monkey | ||
| Prisoner's Base | ||
| The Golden Spiders | ||
| Three Men Out | Invitation to Murder | |
| The Zero Clue | ||
| This Won't Kill You | ||
| Black Mountain | ||
| Before Midnight | ||
| Three Witnesses | The Next Witness | |
| When A Man Murders... | ||
| Die like a Dog | ||
| Might as Well be Dead | ||
| Three for the Chair | A Window for Death | |
| Immune to Murder | ||
| Too Many Detectives | ||
| If Death Ever Slept | ||
| And Four to Go | Christmas Party | |
| Easter Parade | ||
| Christmas Party | ||
| Murder Is No Joke | ||
| Champagne for One | ||
| Plot It Yourself | ||
| Three at Wolfes Door | Poison ala Carte | |
| The Rodeo Murder | ||
| Method Three for Murder | ||
| Too Many Clients | ||
| The Final Deduction | ||
| Homicide Trinity | Eeny Meeny Murder Mo | |
| Death of a Demon | ||
| Counterfeit For Murder | ||
| Gambit | ||
| The Mother Hunt | ||
| Trio For Blunt Instruments | Kill Now - Pay Later | |
| Murder is Corny | ||
| Blood Will Tell | ||
| A Right To Die | ||
| The Doorbell Rang | ||
| Death of a Doxy | ||
| The Father Hunt | ||
| Death of a Dude | ||
| Please Pass the Guilt | ||
| A Family Affair | ||
| Death Times Three | Bitter End | |
| Murder is Corny | ||
| Assault on a Brownstone | ||
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