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Whenever a Balkan beauty gets in big trouble over some missing diamonds, whom else could she turn to however the world-renowned Nero Wolfe?  Especially because she promises to be Wolfe's long lost daughter!  The pegs are instantly elevated whenever a student only at that lady's fence college ends up dead following a sharp lesson.  As Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, thrust and parry right into a tangle of files, details and global interest, another student body turns up, skillfully skewered through the heart.  Is Wolfe's long lost daughter the black sheep of the household, a warm-blooded mistress of homicide?