Black orchids (soft cover). Stout R.

Niro Wolfe, a passionate collector of an orchid, a big gourmet, a beer lover and a great detective, almost never leaves the house. He unravels all crimes on the basis of the facts that Archie Goodwin collects, his charming, ironic assistant with excellent memory. In the first, he is ready to prove the innocence of the flower grower, but as a fee as a fee asks all the black orchids grown by those, and in the second he sends these flowers to the funeral of a woman whose murder is investigating...

The collection includes two more novels in which the action in which the action occurs during World War II. Wolf and Archie, now Major Goodwin, on the instructions of the government, are investigated by cases related to the leakage of important state secrets.