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Black Orchids

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Black Orchids

Throwback Thursday takes us back to a New York City, a famous detective, and murder. Sent day after day to New York’s flower show to report back to Nero Wolfe on Lewis Hewitt’s famous orchids which have Wolfe obsessed, Archie Goodwin takes notice of a couple in one of the other exhibits who perform the same scene of a summer picnic every day. On the day Wolfe himself arrives to get a look at the orchids, Archie notices something odd about scene, discovering murder has been committed in public and that he, without realizing it, was the method used for the performer’s death.

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The Mystery of the Green Ghost

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The Mystery of the Green Ghost

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads Jupiter JonesPete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews into a crumbling mansion that houses both a human skeleton wearing a priceless string of pearls hidden within a secret room only discovered during the demolition and a green apparition, apparently the ghost of the house’s former owner, haunting its hallways.

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