Make Out with Murder

Leo Haig, a dabbler in rare fish, has read every mystery book known and adopted the Nero Wolfe image as his own. Chip Harrison plays his Archie Goodwin and narrator; at Haig's behest he throws in a couple of juicy sex scenes to entice the modern reader. Chip finds his girlfriend Melanie nude and dead, supposedly of an overdose. However when Chip finds that two of Melanie's five other sisters have died of possible homicides, Haig is intrigued, especially since the sisters are heiresses to a great fortune. Numerous other murders occur before Chip believes he has identified the murderer. Wolfe naturally rejects this finding and instead calls for the grand-standing finale at which the true murderer is unveiled. Lawrence Block (under a psuedynom) pulls off his usual sly humor making for a quick but fun read.