If death slept. Four should leave. 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.

Multimillioner Otis Jarrell is sure that his daughter -in -law sells the secrets of the company to competitors, and to prove her guilt, hires Niro Wolf for this. And for collecting compromising evidence, Archie Goodwin, under the guise of a new secretary, settles in the house of Jarrell. And two days later they kill the previous secretary, and Archie finds himself in the thick of the events. The police, of course, the question arises: how did Wolf and Goodwin learn about the murder in advance?

In addition to the novel “If Death was asleep”, the book “Four should leave” about the next affairs of the famous detective.