Story Information: A&E Nero Wolfe Series (DVD Movie Collection)
First Composed: 1948
First Published: 1949
From Collection: Three Doors to Death
Location: Upstate New York
Wolfe's Brownstone: Click to View Floorplan
Victim #1: Dini Lauer (in Pitcairn greenhouse)
Murderer: Donald Pitcairn
Motive: She refused to marry Donald
Weapon: Drugged with morphine; inhaled ciphogene
Client: Andrew Krasicki
Fee: Krasicki allowed to work for Wolfe Story Synopsis:
Zowie! Nero Wolfe breaks all rules in this thriller. He braves a winter snowstorm
to travel upstate in order to entice a gardener into his employ, only to get entangled in a murder. In his quest to find a substitute orchid nurse he is escorted
out of the county by an obnoxious state trooper, braves the eats of a restaurant, stays away from home and his orchid plants, willfully trespasses, has
Archie Goodwin use a gun to keep the suspects from calling the cops and orders
Saul Panzer to conduct an illegal search. He even wades through a creek and
trudges through a snow-covered forest at night to grill unwilling suspects. What he refuses to endure is a rude young woman calling him Nero.