Frank Carlson Library

An innocent young telegraph operator becomes a counterfeiter's target Once, the Lamartine Hotel was a quiet refuge for New York's stuffy fashionable set. But by the 1890s, fashion has moved uptown, and the lobby of the Lamartine has been overtaken by natty young sports, who pass their afternoons with billiards or shows of noisy derring-do. Their preferred damsel is Lila Williams, a delicate young telegraph operator whose shyness so charms them that...

Presents two novels by Rex Stout featuring detective Nero Wolfe, including "Fer-de-Lance", in which Nero crosses paths with a vengeful killer while investigating the deaths of an immigrant and a college president, and "The League of Frightened Men", a story about Nero's attempts to help a frightened man who is being stalked by a vicious killer.