Her Forbidden Knight

Follow the fortunes of the beautiful and nave Lila Williams, a telegraph operator at New Yorks swankiest hotelthe Lamartineas she becomes unwittingly enmeshed in the operations of a shady counterfeiting ring. By chance, the innocent Lila, coveted by a member of an unlikely group of knights, finds herself swept off her pretty feet and into safetyor is it peril?The very first novel from the classic crime writer Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight gives the reader a glimpse of the cunning devices and charades of the celebrated Nero Wolfe mysteries that followed in the authors later years.Includes the bonus short story An Officer and a Lady.