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epub | 7.31 MB | English| Isbn:9781626362826 | Author: Rex Stout | Year: 1997
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Quote:Follow the fortunes of the beautiful and naïve Lila Williams, a telegraph operator at New York's swankiest hotel-the Lamartine-as she becomes unwittingly enmeshed in the operations of a shady counterfeiting ring. By chance, the innocent Lila, coveted by a member of an unlikely group of "knights," finds herself swept off her pretty feet and into safety-or is it peril?Category:Mystery & Thrillers, Cozy Mysteries & Amateur Sleuths, Women Detectives - Fiction, Amateur Detectives, Women Sleuths
The very first novel from the classic crime writer Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight gives the reader a glimpse of the cunning devices and charades of the celebrated Nero Wolfe mysteries that followed in the author's later years.
Includes the bonus short story "An Officer and a Lady."