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When attorney Jack Newlin discovers his wife dead in their home, he's convinced he knows who killed her--and is equally determined to hide the truth. He decides to frame himself for murder, and to seal his fate he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find: a reluctant rookie by the name of Mar... More

One by one they knocked on Nero Wolfe's door, each with a case more perplexing than the last: a suicide victim who turns up alive, only to be murdered anew; a murder victim's family who provides his killer with an alibi; and a master horticulturalist who finds the woman of his dreams--dead and cooli... More

Two Nero Wolfe novellas make for one great read in this latest addition to the Rex Stout Library. Archie Godwin is in the Military Intelligence, and is framed for murder. In the second story, Archie and Nero are embroiled in another war-time mystery, this one involving a captain whose fatal fall lea... More

Nothing can prepare criminal attorney Bennie Rosato for her new client, Alice, accused of murdering her police detective lover. Alice, who looks a lot like Bennie, tells the astonished lawyer that they are identical twins. But Bennie grew up as an only child. It's not until the verdict is in that Be... More

Three witnesses hold all the clues in three crimes of passion that have even the great Nero Wolfe guessing to the very end. A dead million comes back to life, only to wind up dead again; a black Labrador retriever becomes a killer's worst enemy; and an answering service with three untalkative operat... More

Lucas Davenport finds some changes--and some nasty surprises--in store in the chilling new novel in the "New York Times" bestselling series. "Sandford's best novel yet."--"Library Journal."Lucas Davenport investigates the lynching murder of an interracial couple in a small Minnesota town.... More

Young lawyer Mary DiNunzio finds her life in jeopardy when she digs too closely into the suicide of an Italian-American in a World War II internment camp, and starts receiving ominous threats.Lawyer Mary DiNunzio's new case is a mystery--the strange suicide of an Italian fisherman interned during a ... More

The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack had been an expert on fungi. His body contained enough muscarine to kill 30 people. Why would he feast on such a large quantity of this poisonous species? A clue was hidden in a series of letters and documents that no one seemed to care about--... More

Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is hours away from winning an acquittal for her client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, on trial for the murder of a homeless man who had tried to carjack him. But as the jury begins deliberations, Marta discovers the chilling truth about her client's innocence. ... More

Fear Street -- Where Your Worst Nightmares Live... After his girlfriend's gruesome death one year ago, Brady is finally ready to get on with his life. He's met Rosha and he's fallen hard.But he's also fallen into trouble. Terrible accidents seem to happen whenever Rosha's around. And a strange figur... More

A car accident strands Nero Wolfe and Archie in the midst of an upstate family feud over $45,000 worth of prize bull--a feud that turns ugly when the beef in question is found pawing the mangled body of one of the family scions. Solving the mystery is no problem--except that the evidence keeps disap... More

On the outskirts of Paris, a prostitute is found murdered in a vacant lot. In a seedy apartment house nearby lives pasty, fat Mr. Hire. Mr. Hire, who earns his living through a petty postal scam, is a convicted pornographer, a peeping Tom, and, once a week, the unlikely star of a Parisian bowling cl... More

Before mild-mannered furniture salesman Al Tuchman left New Jersey for a week in Key West, he hadn't an enemy in the world. But a series of puzzling assaults on his privacy, his sanity, and his life has turned his stay at the tasteful Paradise Hotel into Tropical Hell. Maybe it's the humidity. Maybe... More

Terrible things happen to those who live on Fear Street in the town of Shadyside--deadly, awful things. Now bestselling author R.L. Stine has hand-picked two of his favorite Fear Street titles especially for Valentine's Day. Reissue.FEAR STREET -- WHERE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARES LIVE...Selena has it all... More

Whoever administered the deadly dose of champagne isn't talking, and neither is the victim, as Nero Wolfe searches for the antidote to the perfect crime. Includes never-before-published memorabilia from the life of Rex Stout.... More

The #1 "New York Times" bestselling author brings back his popular characters Kidd and LuEllen in a electrifying novel of murder and Machiavellian intrigue. "Kidd and his pals deserve more chances to strut their stuff."--"Chicago Tribune."... More

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 dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he'... More

Young attorney Judy Carrier prepares for the case of her career defending Anthony Lucia, known as "Pigeon Tony, " charged with the murder of his lifelong enemy, Angelo Coluzzi. Anthony admits to the killing because of a vendetta--and the Coluzzi family wants revenge. In a case steeped in blood and m... More

Madeline Fraser, radio talk show host extraordinare, had a natural dread of dead air. So when one of her on-air guests signed off at the mike after drinking a glass of a sponsor's beverage, it was a broadcasters nightmare come true. Enter Nero Wolfe. He agrees to take the case, with his sizable fee ... More

When Rachel Bruner sends out copies of a book critical of the FBI to 10,000 influential people, the agency begins harassing her. Then she hires Nero Wolfe to make them stop, and once he's discovered the bureau's weak spot, he sets in motion a scheme guaranteed to force the FBI to leave both him and ... More