The army wants Nero Wolfe urgently, but he refuses their clarion call to duty. It takes Archie Goodwin to titillate Wolfe ́s taste for crime with two malevolent morsels - a corpse that refuses to rest in peace and a sinister 'acciednt' involving national security. It ́s up to the Grandiose Master himself, Nero Wolfe, to set the traps to catch a pair of wily killers - as Archie lays the bait on the wrong side of the law.