On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before...

When a Balkan beauty is accused of stealing diamonds, she turns to the world-famous Nero Wolfe, claiming to be his long-lost adopted daughter.

When Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a presumed suicide in Venice's elite military academy, his inquiries are immediately met with a wall of silence. The...

On a rainy morning, not long after the funeral of his mother, Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to a 911 call reporting a body floating near the steps in one of Venice's side...

When a 12-year-old boy witnesses a possible crime, Nero Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, find themselves involved with murder, a blackmail racket, and a mysterious woman wearing golden...

Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) may be the pride and joy of the New Labour Party, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole--he takes the old-fashioned view that if anyone is going to...