Fer-De-Lance & The League of Frightened Men

Multiple murders send sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin on a desperate hunt for clues, but they may be getting too close when someone sends them one of the world's most poisonous snakes as a deadly "gift," in Fer-de-Lance, and in The League of Frightened Men, Nero Wolfe tries to find evidence against a self-confessed murderer seeking revenge on a group of former schoolmates. Original. 25,000 first printing.