Murder by the Book Ali Smith The mountain's defences are weak

The mountain's defences are weak

As their holiday unfolds

The race is on to stop a deadly plot that dates back to the early years of the Cold War

capable of vertiginous feats of logic and observation

Murder by the Book Ali Smith The mountain's defences are weakIt wasn't Leonard Dykes's writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy ending. Now four people are dead, including the unfortunate author himself, and the police think Nero Wolfe is the only man who can close the book on this novel killer. So the genius sleuth directs his sidekick to set a trap . . . and discovers that the truth is far stranger and far bloodier than fiction.