<b>A NERO WOLFE SPECIAL EDITION&#8212;TWO COMPLETE MYSTERIES IN ONE VOLUME </b><br><br>&#8220;Nero Wolfe towers over his rivals...he is an exceptional character creation.&#8221; &#8212;<i>New Yorker</i><b> </b>A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America&#8217;s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction&#8217;s greatest detectives. In this double helping of classic Nero Wolfe mysteries, Stout presents the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, with a pair of delectable murders that no connoisseur of the whodunit could possibly resist. <br><br><b>BLACK ORCHIDS </b><br>Not much can get Wolfe to leave his comfortable brownstone, but the showing of a rare black orchid lures him to a flower show. Unfortunately, the much-anticipated event is soon overshadowed by a murder as daring as it is sudden. It&#8217;s a case of weeding out a cunning killer who can turn up anywhere&#8212;and Wolfe must do it quickly. Because a second case awaits his urgent attention: a society widow on a mailing list of poison-pen letters leading to a plot as dark as any orchid Wolfe has ever encountered.<br><br><b>THE SILENT SPEAKER<br></b>When a government power broker scheduled to speak before an influential group of millionaires turns up dead, Nero Wolfe grudgingly takes the case&#8212;even as his own financial affairs teeter toward ruin. Soon a second victim is discovered, a missing stenographer&#8217;s tape causes a panic, and a dead man speaks, after a fashion. As the business world demands answers, the great detective baits a trap to net a killer worth his weight in gold.