<div>Half a million dollars is at stake, but Archie Goodwin still has to use every trick in the book to get his friend, the crime-solving genius Nero Wolf, to accept the case. At last the portly detective takes the bait, and finds himself embroiled in a high-society kidnapping. When a murder and a bizarre accident follow, an incorrect deduction may prove all too final. The voice of Michael Prichard brings the wry Archie and the reluctant Nero to life.</div>