In the Best Families

Private Investigator Mysteries

Author: Rex Stout

Aging millionairess Mrs. Rackham asks Nero Wolfe to find out where her penniless husband has suddenly been obtaining mysteriously large sums of money, a request that leads to murder and to threats against the master detective himself…..Read More

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