Silver Spire

The Reverend Barnabas Bay, world-famous televangelist, has been receiving bad tidings from the Good Book: a series of threatening notes lifted from Bible verses and placed in the collection plate on six consecutive Sundays. Nero Wolfe refuses to take the case-aside from his moral aversion to organized religion, there's the fact that the only plate he's interested in passing is one on which a three-star epicurean delight resides. But Wolfe will find himself called to minister to luckless free-lance PI. Fred Durkin when Archie Goodwin's referral gets Fred the case-arid a murder rap when someone prematurely meets his Maker. It will take a miracle to find the true killer, but miracles seem to be in season. For lo and behold, the great detective leaves his Thirty-fifth Street brownstone for the alien shores of Staten Island, to find the wolf in the midst of the flock.