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Gambit

(1962)
(Book 37 in the Nero Wolfe series)
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You wouldn't expect a very public murder in a very private chess club. But that's what happens when someone stirs up an arsenic cocktail for one of the members. Police have a suspect, but his daughter knows he's a pawn.

She calls on Nero Wolfe, who checkmates the cops as well as the killer.

"Witty, urbane, conversational." (Publishers Weekly)


Genre: Mystery

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