Description
When a celebrated chess player is murdered during a high-profile exhibition at a Manhattan chess club, Nero Wolfe is drawn into a case where every guest may have had motive—and every move may conceal a secret. As Archie Goodwin navigates a tangle of lawyers, lobbyists, recording experts, and eccentric chess devotees, Wolfe relies less on the game’s formal strategies than on his own formidable command of language, logic, and human weakness. Marked by sharp wit, colorful deduction, and Wolfe’s willingness to pursue justice by unconventional means, the novel explores the power of words, the limits of fair play, and the uneasy relationship between truth and proof.
Available Editions
paperback
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published Jan 1, 1971
190 pages
ISBN: 9780006125525
Meet Nero Wolfe
#1Fer-de-lance
#2The League of Frightened Men
The Rubber Band
#5Too Many Cooks
#6Some Buried Caesar
#6Where There's a Will
Over My Dead Body
Black Orchids
Too Many Women
#11The Silent Speaker
And Be a Villain
#13In the Best Families
The Black Mountain
#19Might as Well Be Dead
And Four to Go
Prisoner's Base
#24Three for the Chair
#25Plot It Yourself
#27If Death Ever Slept
Champagne for One
Gambit
#33Death of a Doxy
A Family Affair
Three Men Out
The Father Hunt
#45Death of a Dude
Please Pass the Guilt
Not Quite Dead Enough
Trouble in Triplicate
Curtains for Three
Murder by the Book
Triple Jeopardy
The Golden Spiders
Before Midnight
The Final Deduction
Three Witnesses
Too Many Clients
Three at Wolfe's Door
The Mother Hunt
A Right to Die
The Doorbell Rang
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Details
First Published
1962
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Gambit by Rex Stout.