From AudioFile
While listening to this with me, my daughter asked why I thought the particular reader had been selected, and, without thinking, I said: "Because he has a fat voice." That about sums up Michael Prichard's presentation of Nero Wolfe, the obese detective and gourmand who raises orchids and hates to leave his brownstone. Prichard isn't so good with the other characters, although he does vary the pitch of his voice to distinguish them. Essentially this is an uncomplicated reading of a good detective book. The story has to do with the struggles of a mistress and family over the legacy of a murdered man. D.R.W. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine

The New Yorker
"Nero Wolfe, the fat detective of Rex Stout's novels, towers over his rivals...he is an exceptional character creation."

Walter Mosley
"Rex Stout, through the voice of Archie telling us about his world (a full third of which was occupied by Nero Wolfe), raised detective fiction to the level of art with these books. He gave us genius of at least two kinds, and a strong realist voice that was shot through with hope."

The New York Times Book Review
"It is always a treat to [hear] a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore."

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Why did the late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne leave a peach, a pear and an apple to his sisters, April, May and June? And why is the bulk of his estate to go to a woman most definitely not his wife?

The able, astute and unscrupulous detective Nero Wolfe must get to the bottom of a will that has left a whirlpool of menace...and a legacy of murder that's about to be fulfilled.