 A wealthy wife hires Nero Wolfe to learn the source of her husband's mysterious income.In short order, Arnold Zeck horns in, the wife is murdered, and Wolfe disappears.Nero Wolfe is approached by heiress Sarah Rackham and her cousin Calvin Leeds, a breeder of Dobermans, to investigate Sarah's husband Barry, who maintains an unusually lavish lifestyle despite having no income or support from Sarah.