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. At the final stage of a competition organized by a perfume company, one of the organizers is killed, and the answers to the final questions disappear from his wallet. All five finalists are under suspicion, and to avoid a scandal, the organizers ask Wolfe to find a sheet with the answers. Contrary to the opinion of the police, Wolfe adheres to the version that the man who stole the answers and the murderer are one and the same person. A man approaches Nero Wolfe with a request to find his son, who left home eleven years ago. They manage to find the prodigal son quite quickly, but they find him in prison, where he is sitting on charges of murder. And Wolfe needs to prove his innocence. In addition to the novels “Run Before Midnight” and “I’d Better Be Dead,” the collection includes three more stories about the famous detective’s latest cases.