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The family of fence Arnie Albright thinks that a Club Med vacation might add some polish to his practically nonexistent manners. While that laudable aim remains unfulfilled, the Caribbean idyll does allow Arnie to make the acquaintance of Preston Fairweather, a wealthy but equally obnoxious man who`s been hiding out at the resort to avoid litigation from his many ex-wives. This state of affairs leaves Fairweather`s expensively furnished and poorly secured New York penthouse essentially vacant. After Arnie suggests robbing the apartment, master thief John Dortmunder and his usual associates put the caper together, inconvenienced by the fact that their usual meeting spot, the back room of the O.J. Bar and Grill, has been taken over by the mob. This is the 12th side-splitting entry in the Dortmunder series.
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When the local historical society finds a Confederate soldier's diary hinting of hidden gold, the town of Maggody is afire with ideas about how to find it. The diary also inspires a documentary film crew to visit town. When a member of the historical society dies in a suspicious manner, it's up to Police Chief Arly Hanks to sort out the mess.
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A Balkan beauty claims to be Nero Wolfe's long-lost daughter. But is she actually a murderess?
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In the movie studio in Hollywood where Sherlock Holmes`s The Valley of Fear
is being filmed, comedian-cum-amateur sleuth Groucho Marx and his writer, Frank Denby, stumble across a stage set for death.
The body of the German emigre director Felix Denker has been found in Holmes` favorite armchair, stabbed in the chest with the famous detective`s pearl-handled letter opener.Miles Ravenshaw, the actor portraying the immortal sleuth in the movie and a former member of Scotland Yard ridicules Groucho, calling him
a slipshod gumshoe,
and challenging him to a race to find the killer. As always, Groucho rises to the occasion, and with his version of the familiar words
the games afoot again, Rollo,
enlists his faithful sidekick in the investigation.The race is on across Hollywood and its surrounding venues as the two desperately search for the solution --but not without having a lot of fun along the way. Full of the quipping comic`s wisecracks, the stars, the glitz and the glamour of the Hollywood of the 1930s, the third installment in Goulart`s highly-praised mystery series is a must-have for all Groucho fans.
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