#7 Nero Wolfe

Over My Dead Body

Rex Stout
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When a Balkan beauty gets in trouble over some missing diamonds, who else can she turn to but the world-famous Nero Wolfe?  Especially since she claims to be Wolfe's long lost daughter! The stakes are suddenly raised when a student at this woman's fencing school ends up dead after a pointed lesson. As Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, thrust and parry into a tangle of documents, identities and international intrigue, another student body turns up, expertly skewered through the heart. Here's a question for you: "Is Wolfe's daughter, the black sheep of the family, [also] a hot-blooded mistress of murder?"
Genres: MysteryFictionDetectiveCrimeMystery ThrillerAudiobookClassicsHumorHistoricalAmerican
272 Pages

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