Murder in E Minor

Devotees of the late Rex Stout's bestsellers will be pleasantly
surprised by Goldsborough's first story about Nero Wolfe. Related by the
elephantine genius's faithful assistant Archie Goodwin, this mystery
starts when Maria Radovich asks him to intercede for her with Wolfe.
She's worried over threats against her great-uncle Milan Stevens,
controversial new director of the New York Symphony. Since Stevens, ne
Mikos Stefanovic, had saved the detective's life years earlier in
Montenegro, Wolfe agrees to take the case. Before he can act, however,
someone stabs the musician fatally in his apartment. The police arrest
Jerry Milner, a violinist with the orchestra and Maria's fiance, but
Wolfe demolishes the evidence against him. While his boss remains
sedentary, Archie obeys orders to go looking for information about other
suspects: the victims's sponsor who regrets his choice of director;
musicians whom the maestro had publicly insulted; the glamorous society
woman who had been his frequent companion. As always, Wolfe solves the
puzzle without moving from the famous brownstone on 37th St.