Black Orchids - Nero Wolfe, Bk 9 Author:Rex Stout A remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show lures Nero Wolfe from his comfortable brownstone. But before the detective and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, can stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder puts a blight on the proceedings. The murderer to be weeded out is definitely not a garden-variety killer. — Wolfe must also throw h... more »is considerable weight into another thorny case, this one involving a rich society widow bedeviled by poison-pen letters -- and a poisonous plot as black as Wolfe's orchids with roots even more twisted.
This is a collection of two novellas: Black Orchids and Cordially Invited to Meet Death.« less