A Bantam Book
Copyright 1963 By Rex Stout
Bantam Reissue…May 1993
This Edition Published 1995 or after by The Readers Digest Co.
Contents:
The Mother Hunt
Rear Cover Intro:
When an abandoned baby is left on her doorstep, the young socialite widow knows only too well the identity of the father: her deceased philanderer of a husband. But who is the mother? The case seems like child’s play to Wolfe, until the first dead body. While the police nurse their grudges against him, and the widow nurses Archie, the genius sleuth and his sidekick look for the hand that rocked the cradle. But nothing can pacify the killer, who’s found the formula for murder – and is determined to milk it for all it’s worth…