Description
The first corpse is slated to be a newspaper. If Ian MacLaren, sleazy king of Britain's scandal sheets, succeeds in taking over the Gazette, this respectable publication will die. Archie Goodwin is astonished when Nero Wolfe decides to stop him. But Wolfe's public call for defense of the Gazette leads to a bullet in someone's brain. The NYPD calls it suicide...but Wolfe recognizes the byline of a murderer working under deadline.