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 based on the facts collected by Archie Goodwin, his charming, ironic assistant with an excellent memory. Amy Denovo asks Wolfe to find her father, whom she never knew and from whom, after her mother's death, she inherited a quarter of a million dollars in cash. Wolfe gets down to business, and at the same time finds his mother’s killer...