Two years after Wolfe\'s retirement, his past returns with deadly intent It wasn\'t Nero Wolfe\'s idea for Orrie Cather to kill himself, but the great detective gave his blessing to his longtime associate\'s plan.
Wolfe decided his sleuthin.
Though Wolfe reacted to Cather\'s death with his characteristic calmness, prize assistant Archie Goodwin could see the rotund genius of West Thirty-Fifth Street was shaken to his well-fed core.
Cather had killed three people, and it was only fair to pay the price.
Two years after Wolfe\'s retirement, his past returns with deadly intent It wasn\'t Nero Wolfe\'s idea for Orrie Cather to kill himself, but the great detective gave his blessing to his longtime associate\'s plan