Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, are entangled in the murder case of a beautiful young socialite with too many lovers and one too many enemies--but Wolfe is sure the police are wrong to arrest her fiancee.
Four years ago Charles Moray had been jilted at the altar by Margaret Langton. Four years later he returns to London to find his ex-fiancee mixed up in a vicious plot involving kidnap and worse.
In this sequel to "Break In", Kit Fielding, champion jockey, attracts trouble on all fronts. He has problems with racing and his fiancee, as well as the old Fielding-Allerdeck feud.
When he stumbles upon Ricky, a young Navajo man, beaten and dying in the newly fallen snow, part-time history professor Ben Bailey questions everything in his life, including his relationship with his fiancee Sara, and decides to discover the truth about Ricky's death, for his sake and the sake of Ricky's sister, Shadi.
In this sequel to "Break In", Kit Fielding, champion jockey, attracts trouble on all fronts. He has problems with racing and his fiancee, as well as the old Fielding-Allerdeck feud.