num_pages: 208
description: When an abandoned baby is left on her doorstep, the young socialite widow knows only too well the identity of the father: her deceased philanderer of a husband. But who is the mother? The case seems like child's play to Wolfe, until the first dead body. While the police nurse their grudges against him, and the widow nurses Archie, the genius sleuth and his sidekick look for the hand that rocked the cradle. But nothing can pacify the killer, who's found the formula for murder—and is determined to milk it for all it's worth…
language: English
title: The Mother Hunt
titlecomplete: The Mother Hunt (Nero Wolfe #38)
characters: Beatrice Epps, Leo Bingham, Lon Cohen, Arthur P. Jordan, Nero Wolfe, Mrs. Nesbitt, Manuel Upton, Anne Tenzer, Fritz, Fred Durkin, Willis Krug, Nathan Hirsh, Inspector Cramer, Nicolas Losseff, Saul Panzer, Orrie Cather, Lucy Valdon, Julian Haft, Sally Corbett, Purley Stebbins, Carol Mardus, Ellen Tenzer, Al Posner, Marie Foltz, Vera Dowd, James R. Nesbitt, Sidney Bergman, Richard Valdon, Archie Goodwin
genres: Politics, Detective, Historical, Crime, Classics, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Humor, Golden Age Mystery
ratings_count: 2807
places: New York (State)
series: Nero Wolfe 
publisher: Crimeline