A woman with a man seated beside her in a Cadillac mouths soundlessly to a street urchin,
 “Help, get a cop!” One of these three very presently is murdered, and as a result Nero 
Wolfe delivers himself of his first recorded lecture on crime detection. Even more surprising
, Nero and Archie take on a case for the smallest retainer in their history: four dollars and 
thirty cents.“The Golden Spiders”, Rex Stout introduces a new kind of criminal engaged in a 
peculiarly contemporary and particularly vicious kind of crime. Nero never had to think faster
 and Archie never encountered greater perils than in this, undoubtedly one of the very finest
 novels of detection or our day.
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