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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The eleventh Nero Wolfe mystery novel by Rex Stout, published in 1948.A popular radio program hosted by charismatic interviewer Madeline Fraser is facing a public relations crisis. During a live commercial tasting for a popular brand of soft drink, one of the guests — Cyril Orchard, publisher of a weekly horse racing magazine — has been murdered with poison in his glass. As this happens to coincide with Nero Wolfe's hefty tax bill, he reluctantly spies the opportunity to earn some money, and persuades the show's producers and sponsors to hire his services to catch the culprit and end their difficulties for a generous fee. But the matter is more complicated than Wolfe and Archie Goodwin anticipate, because behind the show's cheerful exterior there are many secrets that the show's cast and crew are determined to keep, even more so when it looks like Fraser may have been the murderer's real target. And then another murder reveals another possible motive, and another possible actor at play — a shadowy, ruthless mastermind of the New York criminal underworld, who has no intention of allowing Nero Wolfe to unravel his devious schemes and will do whatever it takes to prevent it...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The novel is the first in the "Zeck" trilogy, in which Nero Wolfe matches wits with the mysterious criminal mastermind Arnold Zeck.
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 Asshole Victim: Cyril Orchard and Beula Poole, both of whom turn out to be part of a blackmail syndicate. Downplayed, as exactly how deeply involved and how much they really knew is left open to question, but even so it's made clear that they would have had some inkling of what was really going on, so they still belong here.
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 Accidental Truth: Zeck's syndicate intentionally uses fraudulent secrets to blackmail their victims, reasoning that most people will simply pay up rather than take more drastic measures. But when they blackmailed Madeline Fraser, their lie of choice was actually the truth, and she murdered three people to cover it up.
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