Nero Wolfe, an avid orchid collector, a great gourmet, a beer lover and a great detective, almost never leaves the house. He unravels all the crimes on the basis of the facts collected by Archie Goodwin, his charming, ironic assistant with an excellent memory. Rachel Bruner asks Wolfe to protect her from the persecution of the almighty FBI. Goodwin, skeptical, tries to dissuade his boss, but Wolfe, filled with enthusiasm, decides otherwise and undertakes to investigate an unsolved murder two months ago, in which FBI employees are involved, but Wolfe’s real task is not to solve the murder, but to repel the presumptuous FBI...