In The Best Families - Plot Introduction

Plot Introduction

AG:

Do not look for me.
My very best regards and wishes. . . .
NW

— Nero Wolfe's parting instruction, In The Best Families, chapter 6

A wealthy wife hires Nero Wolfe to learn the source of her husband's mysterious income. In short order, Arnold Zeck horns in, the wife is murdered, and Wolfe disappears.

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