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Nero Wolfe, the epicurean detective, and his wry and irreverent legman, Archie, team up again to discover why a law office clerk has been murdered for the unlikely offense of submitting a manuscript for publication. With a cryptic quotation from the Bible and a list of names in the dead clerk's pocket as the only clues, Wolfe and Archie take the murderous manuscript to task. "Odd and intriguing. . . . Wolfe and Archie are both in top form." - The New York Times It wasn't Leonard Dykes's wrting style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy end. Now four people are dead, including the unfortunate author himself, and the police think Nero Wolfe is the only man who can close the book on this novel killer. So Nero Wolfe and his trusty sidekick Archie Goodwin devise a trap. what they discover is that the truth is stranger than fiction. --Book jacket Leonard Dyke's writing style didn't offend. But all of his work featured unhappy endings - murder. When four people die, including the author, police finally call on Nero Wolfe. Wolfe baits his trap. When it springs shut, he finds that truth is stranger (and bloodier) than fiction. A cryptic quotation from the Bible, a list of names in a dead man's apartment, and a mysterious missing book are clues in a multiple murder case