Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.
as Nero Wolfe
as Archie Goodwin
as Inspector Cramer
as Laura Fromm
as Fritz Brenner
as Saul Panzer
as Jean Estey
as Denis Horan
as Lips Egan
as mrs. Horan
as Fred Durkin
as mrs. Drossos
as sergeant Purley Stebbins
as James Maddox
as Lon Cohen
as butler
as Pete Drossos
as receptionist
as Angela Wright
as Gerstner
as Irving Gerstner
as Orrie Cather
as Mort Erwin
as Walter Neary
as Bernard Levine
as Matthew Birch
as Paul Kuffner