description: Nero Wolfe, the epicurean detective, and his wry and irreverent legman, Archie, team up again to discover why a law office clerk has been murdered for the unlikely offense of submitting a manuscript for publication. With a cryptic quotation from the Bible and a list of names in the dead clerk's pocket as the only clues, Wolfe and Archie take the murderous manuscript to task.
language: English
title: Murder by the Book
titlecomplete: Murder by the Book
characters: Phil Buratti, James Corrigan, Helen Troy, Nina Perlman, George Rowcliff, Baird Archer, Orrie Cather, Blanche Duke, Eleanor Gruber, Frederick Briggs, Deborah Abrams, Hulda Greenberg, Mabel Moore, Nathan Harris, Purley Stebbins, Mrs. Abrams, Rachel Abrams, Sue Dondero, Portia Liss, Leonard Dykes, Claire Buckhardt, Cynthia Free, Nancy Abrams, Theodore Horstmann, Saul Panzer, Joan Wellman, Gibson, Fritz Brenner, Fred Durkin, Archie Goodwin, John R. Wellman, Louis Kustin, Ferdinand Dolman, William Butterfield, Charlotte Adams, Dolly Harriton, Emmett Phelps, Inspector Cramer, Clarence O. Potter, Nero Wolfe, Conroy O’Malley
genres: 20th Century, Crime, Detective, Humor, Books About Books, Fiction, Audiobook, American, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 3693
places: New York City, New York
series: Nero Wolfe 
publisher: Audio Partners