The Golden Spiders

By Rex Stout

Subjects: Nero Wolfe (Fictitious character), Large type books, Private investigators, fiction, Wolfe, nero (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, mystery, Private investigators

Description: Published 1953. A street kid who washes car windows at street corners for nickels and dimes comes to Wolfe with a disturbing report of a terrified woman passenger in a car that he has accosted. The next day the boy is dead - run down in the street. A second witness who comes forward is also murdered, leaving Archie and Wolfe with precious little to go on but the clue of a pair of unique earrings - shaped like golden spiders.