num_pages: 462
description: Nero Wolfe, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth, returns--with his perambulatory man-about-town Archie Goodwin in tow--playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda, and hoping to catch a killer who's still got poison in his heart.
language: English
title: Fer-de-lance
titlecomplete: Fer-de-lance
characters: Larry Barstow, Orrie Cather, Harry Foster, Harry H. Barber, Dick Morley, E.D. Kimball, Theodore Horstmann, Archie Goodwin, Bill Gore, Mr. Townsend (Fer-de-Lance), Peter Oliver Barstow, Manuel Kimball, Nero Wolfe, Detective O'Grady, Maria Maffei, Carlo Maffei, Noel Bradford, Fritz Brenner, Fred Durkin, Fletcher M. Anderson, Anna Fiore
genres: American, Audiobook, Mystery, Fiction, 20th Century, Crime, Adult, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective
ratings_count: 14957
places: New York City, New York
series: Nero Wolfe 
publisher: G.K. Hall