Searching for the long-lost sister of an Irish-American impresario, P.I. Molly Murphy leaves turn-of-the-century New York to head back to her native Ireland, only to be confronted by the murder of her maid and the disappearance of a famed Irish actress.

Stone Barrington, an ex-cop-turned-lawyer, becomes caught between a woman abandoned on the altar and another suspected of murder.

Cop-turned-attorney Stone Barrington joins forces with Holly Barker, the tenacious female police chief of Orchid Island, Florida, when she comes to Manhattan to pursue a fugitive from her jurisdiction.

When a young lad seeking the woman with golden spider earrings is murdered, Nero Wolfe focuses his considerable intelligence on the case. As Wolfe and Archie Goodwin get deeper into the mystery, blackmail, racketeering, and more murders are revealed.

"Molly Murphy Sullivan's husband Daniel, a captain in the New York City police force, is stumped. He's chasing a murderer whose victims have nothing in common nothing except for the taunting notes that are delivered to Daniel after each murder. And when Daniel receives a note immediately after Molly and her young son Liam are in a terrible train crash, Daniel and Molly both begin to fear that maybe Molly herself was the target. Molly's detective instincts...