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First printing. Blue cloth stamped in black, in pictorial dust jacket; housed in custom clamshell box. Book is very good or better, with some wear and fading at corners and some toning to pages, especially to the front and rear paste-downs. In the original dust jacket, not price-clipped. Condition of the dust jacket is good to very good, with some loss to spine head and foot and other chipping along edges and at corners. Overall, a very nice copy.

The third Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout, following the adventures of the legendary detective and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, as they tackle a case linked to a long-standing claim and cryptic clues.