When a millionaire businessman hires Nero Wolfe to probe the background of his daughter’s boyfriend, it seems like just another case of an overprotective father. But when a powerful gangland boss “counsels” the detective to drop the matter, Wolfe receives a warning: a burst of machine-gun fire through the windows of his orchid room. Then the lawyer boyfriend turns up dead, leaving Archie the number one suspect. Throw in drugged drinks, two man-killing debutantes, and officials of a highly un-American party and Wolfe finds himself involved in a case where he must quickly solve one murder to prevent another: his own.<br><b> </b><br><b>Introduction by William G. Tapply</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 greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero