Episode list

A model is killed during a fashion parade. A candy filled with cyanide is the reason for her death. Lew Frost, whose cousin Helen works as a model, hires Nero Wolfe to inquire into the murder. The day after Lew Frost changes his mind but it is too late. Nero Wolfe is already on the right track and with the help of a mysterious red box he will solve the case.

As everyone knows, Nero Wolfe is, among other things, a gourmet and this time he is guest of honor at the annual Congress of the Masters of Haute Cuisine. The investigator participates in a competition involving "printemps" sauce. But where Nero Wolfe is, crime cannot be missing. In fact, the investigator will not be able to taste the famous salsa due to the murder of its inventor Laszlo. Police suspect Berin but Wolfe will try to clear him for a very special fee: the secret recipe for "midnight" sausages.

When Hattie Annis knocks on the door of the gray sandstone house which is Nero Wolfe's home to deliver a package; when immediately afterwards someone tries to kill her; when it turns out there is $ 500 in the package; when the tickets are blatantly false, it is clear that there is bread to bite for the pachidermic private investigator. When he is hired for the purpose of making the police "blush", it is certain that something big will come out of it.

A chess prodigy is poisoned during a club tournament, and the police arrest the member who served the victim hot chocolate. Wolfe is hired to exonerate the suspect. The US title of the book was GAMBIT.

We all know that Nero Wolfe is a real gourmet. Every week McLeod, a farmer, carries to him a parcel of just picked maize-cobs. But one week he can't come and the boy he sends is murdered at the back of the Rusterman Restaurant. Worse still the cobs are not just picked as they should.