num_pages: 224
description: Cheaters never prosper, but Nero Wolfe encounters one who kills trying. At the Pour Amour perfume riddle contest, a million dollars goes to the contestant who can answer five questions. Someone doesn't like the heat of competition, so he murders the contest founder and steals the answers to the riddles. Now Wolfe has to sniff down a trail of clues that leads disturbingly close to home.
language: English
title: Before Midnight
titlecomplete: Before Midnight (Nero Wolfe #25)
characters: Louis Dahlmann, Mr. Schultz, Mr. Knudsen, Philip Younger, Oliver Buff, Nero Wolfe, Susan Tescher, Fred Durkin, Fritz Brenner, Talbott Heery, Inspector Cramer, Gertrude Frazee, Mr. Hibbard, Saul Panzer, George Rowcliff, Vernon Assa, Patrick O’Garro, Orrie Cather, Nathaniel Parker, Lily Rowan, Art Whipple, Bill Gore, Purley Stebbins, Johnny, Sol Ehrlich, Mrs. Draper, Harold Rollins, Archie Goodwin, Mr. Falk
genres: Audiobook, 20th Century, American, New York, Detective, Historical Fiction, Novels, Crime, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 2902
places: New York City, New York
series: Nero Wolfe 
publisher: Bantam