He was a man a lot of people hated, even in death. He was Hale Markham, a professor at an upstate New York college, a man infamous for his poisonous jealousy, backstabbing, and character assassination. His death is graded accidental. As Archie pokes about the ivy, Nero Wolfe is ensconced within his brownstone, professing no interest in the case... until Archie lands in jail. Now the enraged great detective must do the unheard of: he must haul his legendary girth from his favorite armchair and storm into the wilds of the outer world to snare a murderer magna cum laude.
Loretta M. from DANVILLE, OH wrote on 4/23/2006...
murder at school
Rebecca H. (amichai) from SAN FRANCISCO, CA wrote on 9/15/2005...
"Goldsborough has breathed life back into the one-seventh of a tonnage of Wolfe, put the wry bite back into sidekick Archie Goodwin's quickie comebacks, and brought order to the brownstone on West 35th...It's all splendidly paced and plotted and absolutely tuned in to the old world of Nero and Archie" -- Chicago Magazine