Stout, Rex

Three short stories in on book for armchair sleuthing.

Three full Rex Strout novels in one book.

An innocent search for a missing person resulted in finding him in the death cell of a city prison accused for murder.

As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting close to solving the clever murders of an immigrant and a college president.

Nero Wolfe has left his comfortable brownstone for the promise of a remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show--but before Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, have a chance to stop and smell the roses, a daring murder takes place right under their noses and puts a blight on the proceedings.