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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Rex Stout's twenty-first Nero Wolfe novel, published in 1958.Archie accepts Austin "Dinky" Byne's invitation to substitute as one of the chevaliers at Grantham House's annual dinner for unwed mothers, run by Byne's aunt Louise Robilotti. During the post-dinner dance, however, one of the mothers, Faith Usher, drops dead of cyanide in her champagne. As Faith kept cyanide in her bag and had often spoken of killing herself, the police would be content to rule the case suicide, but Archie, who had been warned about the cyanide and had watched her from the dance floor, insists it was murder. Complicating Wolfe's efforts to satisfy himself that Archie is correct is the request of Edwin Laidlaw, another of the chevaliers, who hires Wolfe to keep the police from learning that he fathered Faith Usher's baby a year prior. With Archie's testimony keeping the police and D.A. from closing the case, Wolfe must work around a hostile force to keep a murderer from achieving the aim of disguising their homicide as the suicide of a distraught unwed mother.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A Nero Wolfe Mystery adapted Champagne for One as part of their first season, the novel split into two episodes. | |
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Acrofatic: Wolfe uses the momentum from leaning back in his chair to kick Elaine Usher in the chin when she charges at him. | |
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Driven to Suicide: Subverted; everyone assumes that because Faith Usher carried around a bottle of cyanide in her purse that she was suicidal, and everyone other than Archie and Wolfe believes that she simply cracked at the party. The manager of the home for unwed mothers that Faith was staying in believes the opposite, however; Faith was carrying around the bottle to prove to herself that she wasn't, and that she could overcome both her unfortunate circumstances and her depression. Her faith in Faith is ultimately validated, as Wolfe is able to prove that it was murder after all. | |
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