If one of Nero Wolfe’s adventures had not already been called Too Many Woman, that might have been the title of this one. For sex, to which Archie Goodwin is less a stranger than Nero, rears its quite pretty head throughout this new full-length novel.When the big businessman, who lived in New York’s fashionable East 60s but maintained an expensive love-nest in one of New York’s worst neighborhoods, is murdered, Nero is called in. In fact he is called in three times, the first two times by very — wrong people. Hence before he can start to unravel the murder, he has to solve the unique problem of ditching the wrong clients. Rut ditching can be fun, especially the way Archie does it, and this book will supply new fun and challenge to mystery connoisseurs.

The famous sleuth, involved in a wire-tapping investigation, finds himself prime suspect in the murder of a deceptive client.

When a Man Murders is about a man who is believed killed in the Korean War; his supposed widow marries another man; when her first husband turns up alive, and is then murdered, the second husband is a natural suspect, but it turns out the dead mam’s will had been tampered with.

Investigating the bizarre will of late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne — who left the bulk of his estate to his mistress and nearly nothing to his three sisters — astute sleuth Nero Wolfe stumbles upon a legacy of murder.