The Silent Speaker

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Description for THE SILENT SPEAKER by Rex Stout: When a powerful government official, scheduled to speak to a group of millionaires, turns up dead, it is an event worthy of the not ice of the great Nero Wolfe. Balancing on the edge of financial ruin, the orchid-loving detective grudgingly accepts the case. Soon a second victim is found bludgeoned to death, a missing stenographer's tape causes an uproar, and the dead man speaks, after a fashion. While the business world clamors for a solution, Nero Wolfe patiently lays a trap that will net him a killer worth his weight in gold. This is #11 in A Nero Wolfe Mystery. Show more