Investigating the bizarre will of late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne - who left the bulk of his estate to his mistress and nearly nothing to his three sisters - astute sleuth Nero Wolfe stumbles upon a legacy of murder.
Why did the late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne leave his sisters, April, May, and June, a peach, a pear, and an apple? Why did he will the bulk of his considerable estate to a woman who was most definitely not his wife? Now Nero Wolfe, able, astute, and unscrupulous detective...