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Story Information: First Composed: 1934 First Published: 1935 Location: New York City Wolfe's Brownstone: Click to View Floorplan Victim #1: Loring A. Burton (in NYC home) Presumed Victim #1: William R. Harrison - fell off a cliff at Marblehead, MA Presumed Victim #2: Eugene Dreyers - committed suicide with nitroglycerin poison Murderer: Ferdinand Bowen Motive: Burton learned that Bowen had stolen funds from him Weapon: Colt automatic pistol (4 shots to body) Client #1: League of Atonement (actually hired Wolfe to stop Paul Chapin) Client #2: Evelyn Hibbard (hired to find her uncle) Fee: $56,915 Story Synopsis: The League of Atonement fears a cripple with a vendetta systematically is murdering its members. They hire Nero Wolfe to remove their fear; he does so by clearing the cripple of two "murders" and exposing the real culprit. Wolfe takes an unprecedented ride in a taxi to save Archie Goodwin, who drank drugged coffee while on the case. |
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