Gambit. Banal murder. 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 an elite chess club, a talented chess player Paul Jerin is poisoned during a simultaneous game session, and suspicion falls on one of the participants. However, his daughter is confident in the innocence of his father and asks Wolf to find a real killer... Lucy Weldon, the widow of a successful writer, throw a baby with a note that says that her late husband is the father of this baby. Lucy hires the famous detective to find the mother of the child. But as soon as Wulf started the search as the main witness was killed... In addition to the novels “Gambit” and “The Pursuit of the Mother”, the book includes three novels in which Wolf is accepted for the investigation to prove the innocence of the shoe cleaner, to remove the charges from Archie, whom he set up by him. familiar, and at the same time once again tell the police that she is walking along the wrong track.