Story Information:
First Composed: 1942
First Published: 1944
From Collection: Not Quite Dead Enough
Location: New York City
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Victim #1: Cora Leeds (in her NYC bed)
Murderer: Roy Douglas
Motive: Threatened to take away his pigeons
Weapon: Smothered with a pillow
Client: None
Fee: None
Victim #2: Ann Amory (in her NYC home)
Murderer: Roy Douglas
Motive: Afraid she would reveal he murdered Leeds
Weapon: Strangled with a scarf
Client: Archie Goodwin
Fee: Wolfe to work for the U.S. Army Story Synopsis: Archie Goodwin sets himself up as a murder suspect
so as to prod Nero Wolfe into solving a murder and to
abandon Wolfe's "training" for combat duty in Germany.
Lily Rowen makes a
scintillating appearance, only to be suspected of the murder. Archie cuts a dashing figure as a major in the U.S. Army Intelligence Service.