Gambit. The pursuit of the mother. 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 (“Gambit”).

Lucy Weldon, the widow of a successful writer, throw a baby with a note, which says that the father of this baby is her late husband. Lucy hires the famous detective to find the mother of the child. But Wulfu should start searches how the main witness is killed (“pursuit of mother”).