Story Information:
A&E Nero Wolfe Series (DVD Movie Collection)
First Composed: 1955
First Published: 1955
From Collection: Three for the Chair
Location: Upstate New York
Wolfe's Brownstone: Click to View Floorplan
Victim #1: David Leeson (on river bank in upstate NY)
Murderer: Theodore Kelefy
Motive: Jealousy; his wife seduced Leeson
Weapon: Wooden club to skull
Client: Nero Wolfe
Fee: Able to return home
Story Synopsis:
In response to a State Department request that Nero Wolfe
cook trout for a visiting foreign ambassador, Wolfe and
Archie Goodwin travel to a private lodge in the New York Adirondack Mountains. A murder, not on the menu, threatens to keep both sleuths
bottled in the boondocks under suspicion of murder. A talk with the Secretary of State and exposure of the culprit allow them to return home,
together with trout Archie caught.
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