Murder by the Book (Nero Wolfe Series)

Manhattan Police Inspector Cramer asks for Wolfe’s help in solving the suspicious death of a law office clerk who has been fished out of the Hudson River. His probable homicide-causing offense? Submitting a manuscript for publication! With the manuscript missing and the only two to read it dead, the only clues are a cryptic quotation from the Bible and a list of names in the dead man’s pocket.

Wolfe baits his trap. When it springs shut, he finds that truth is stranger (and bloodier) than fiction.