The Final Deduction by Rex Stout

The Final Deduction by Rex Stout

Stout does it again. A woman approaches Wolfe when her husband has been kidnapped—not to find him, but to make sure that he comes home safe after she pays the ransom. Then the deaths start and Wolfe, trying to earn a huge fee, is in between the criminals and the cops. This one spotlights the lengths Wolfe is willing to go to in order to satisfy his greed and in doing so presents the reader with an excellent mystery. I figured out the villain, but with the wrong reason for the crimes.