Question: Build a movie plot around this: Why was Saul visited by a thug? Saul was demanding 10,000 to get false paperwork for the thug.
Answer:
Nero Wolfe is seated at a large dining table. Archie comes in and joins him. He tells Wolfe he is overdrawn. Wolfe chides Fritz for changing one of his favorite dishes, but Archie enjoys it.Pete Drossos, a young boy, comes to the door, wanting to see Wolfe. He says he has a case, and Archie invites him in. He is a window washer and has seen a woman being abducted. The woman had a golden spider earring. Wolfe instructs Archie to call Cramer to have him trace the car, and the boy leaves to get his lunch.The next day, Stebbins comes to the door. Pete has been killed in a hit and run by the same car. While they discuss the case, Pete's mother comes. Before he died, he had told her to give Wolfe all his money to have Wolfe find his killer.They use the small amount of money he had to run an ad in the paper attempting to draw in the murderer. When he sees it, Cramer comes to find out why, and they discuwo ss Matthew Birch, another man found dead in an alley the previous day. Evidence suggests the same car that killed Pete Drossos also killed Birch.A woman calls at the brownstone, in response to the ad. She is wearing the golden spider earrings. She refuses to give her name, but wants to see Pete. Wolfe forces her to reveal her name, Laura Fromm. She writes Wolfe a check for $10,000 for his advice and help, and promises to return the next day. She refuses to identify the woman in the car.The following day, two lawyers, Denis Horan and Bernard Levine, appear to tell Wolfe that Fromm has also been run over. They want Wolfe to return the money, but Wolfe plans to use it to find her murderer.Archie talks to Lon Cohen to review Fromm's last day. After Wolfe hears the report, he sends Archie to see Jean Estey. While they talk, Paul Cuffner comes in and throws Archie out, and he returns to the brownstone. Saul, Fred, and Orrie are there and he sends them out on assignments.Archie returns to Jean Estey. He pretends to be corrupt and asks her for $5,000 in return for hearing Wolfe's conversation with Laura Fromm. She responds...