Setting: Ohio
Archie Goodman, assistant to Nero Wolfe, is subtly nudged by his Aunt Edna to return home to Ohio, to visit his mother, although she is not having any problems. His first impulse was to stay in New York and wait for his mother's planned visit in the fall, but with Nero's encouragement, he decides to drive to Ohio and make the visit.
He discovers his Aunt's real motive is to get him to investigate the death of a disliked banker, although the police are sure the death was a suicide. He decides to check out the death, and ends up agreeing with his gossip-prone aunt that the death was not self-inflicted.
The story was interesting, and there were several unexpected happenings during the investigation.
I was not totally surprised by the ending, but it took me most of the book to get to that point.
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