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By Rex Stout For once in his life, that fat, beer-drinking, orchid-fancying detective, Nero Wolfe, came near to getting killed for his own cleverness. It all started when he turned down a large fee from Anthony D. Perry, wealthy president of gigantic Seaboard Products Corporation, and took for a client pretty Clara Fox. Miss Fox was accused of stealing $30,000 (1936 dollars!) from Seaboard. Wolfe accepted a retainer of $1. For those who knew that Wolfe's appetite for money approached his for food, that was a surprise. But Wolfe knew that far more than a five-digit theft was in the wind. If Seaboard was in the equation, there were millions involved. The problem was - he didn't count on two murders, nor on a shooting in self-defense.
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Seventh Pocket Books printing, 1944. Exterior of the book is clean and bright, though its laminate has long since vanished. Rubbing at all corners, and along the top of spine (which is otherwise unblemished!). Pages are thin wartime paper, but they are obviously acid-free, still white after all these decades! Old-fashioned sewn binding is good for another 60 or more years.