Black Orchids av Rex Stout

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Nero Wolfe has left his comfortable brownstone for the promise of a remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show—but before Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, have a chance to stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder takes place right under their noses and puts a blight on the proceedings. Now Wolfe''s fancy turns to thoughts of weeding out a murderer—one who''s definitely not a garden-variety killer. Only then will Wolfe be ready to throw his weight into a <i>second </i> thorny case, involving a rich society widow bedeviled by poison-pen letters—and a poisonous plot as black as Wolfe''s orchids . . . with roots that are even more twisted.<br><br><b>Introduction by Lawrence Block</b><br><br><b>“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br> <br>A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America’s greates