From the back cover: Nero Wolfe is the incredibly brilliant orchid-growing gourmet whose sheer genius at daring deduction has no peer. Together with his confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, the big man tackles a most curious case involving a hungry millionaire restaurateur, the $45,000 campion bull he wants to barbeque and an angry young man named Clyde who bet $10,000 that the barbeque would never take place.