The Nero Wolfe Mysteries Volume One: Murder in E Minor, Death on Deadline, and The Bloodied Ivy

This collection brings together three Nero Wolfe mysteries by Robert Goldsborough, who continues Rex Stout's classic detective series. In Murder in E Minor, Nero Wolfe emerges from retirement in his Manhattan brownstone to investigate the murder of a New York Symphony Orchestra conductor who once saved his life in Montenegro. Death on Deadline involves newspaperman Lon Cohen, who previously traded information with Wolfe for exclusive scoops. When the New York Gazette faces financial trouble from a Scottish magnate's takeover attempt and its chief shareholder is found dead, Wolfe becomes entangled in a tabloid war. The Bloodied Ivy centers on Hale Markham, a conservative academic who leads Prescott University with an iron hand. When Markham is discovered dead at the bottom of one of the university's ravines, Wolfe takes on the case.