Review #126
A Nero Wolfe Novel
In this 1958 Nero Wolfe mystery, the rotund, beer-guzzling super sleuth and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin, endeavor to prove that a socialite's apparent suicide was actually a murder.
Everyone who knew Faith Usher knew she always carried a vial of poison around with her in her purse, (just in case she decided to commit suicide), so when she dies after drinking champagne, everyone from the police to her friends to the father of her child assumes she killed herself. Nero Wolfe's ace assistant, Archie Goodwin, is the only one who insists it was a murder because...he was there when it happened and was watching her AND her purse!
As the portly detective investigates, all the people he talks to seem to be trying to get him to stop investigating, which of course only makes Wolfe all the more stubborn. The devilish question he has to answer is…”How do you solve a murder when everyone connected to the victim swears it's a suicide?”
I always enjoy a Nero Wolfe story!
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