Bantam, Toronto, 1982, 1^st pr. thus.  ISBN 0-553-20566-8.  MMPB, 147+ pages.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, reading creases along hinges and spine; binding sound.  Book store stamp on first page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘The incredibly brilliant Nero Wolfe is the orchid-growing gourmet whose sheer genius at deduction is without peer.  Together with his confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, he must utilize his vast resources to solve two cases that concern something perhaps too close to his heart – orchids.  Black orchids.  Never has the big man been matched against a mystery so curious – or so fragrantly deadly.’ (from rear wrap)