Nero Wolfe – Phantom Fingers. ep15, 510126

Join in with a glimpse of a crime in progress. The inheritance was all going to Joe, so why did he gun down the old man? With the rains coming down, and the flood coming up, Archie and Nero can’t cross the river. Taking a detour, they find a body in the road. High on a hill, and with cliffs and floods blocking off escape routes, they are about to have a closed room mystery on their hands. Will there still be a killer lurking?

Confronting the small band of folks in the house, Nero claims that one of them is a killer. Attempts at increasing the body counnt begins. Dumb move, it only makes it easier to figure out who it is. Or is there just some clever smoke screens going up to obscure matters?

Lights keep going off at convenient moments, screams in the house, muddy foot prints, with plenty of clues and red herrings. Nero has an idea , and isn’t fooled for long. A trap is soon set, designed to force the killer to show their hand.