Nero Wolfe is consulted by a boy, a street kid named Peter Drossos, who makes a profession out of wiping the windshields of parked cars with a rag. While wiping one car in particular, he sees a woman wearing golden spider earrings mouth "Help, get a cop"
Gastrollen:
Colin Fox(Fritz Brenner), Saul Rubinek(Lon Cohen), Fulvio Cecere(Fred Durkin), Trent McMullen(Orrie Cather), Robert Bockstael(Timothy Quayle), Nicky Guadagni(Mrs. Ivana Althaus), Hrant Alianak(Vincent Yarmack), Peter Mensah(Receptionist), Mimi Kuzyk(Laura Fromm), Larissa Laskin(Jean Estey), Gary Reineke(Denis Horan), Beau Starr(Lips Egan), Elizabeth Saunders(Mrs. Horan (as Elizabeth Brown)), Nancy Beatty(Mrs. Drossos), Philip Craig(James Maddox), Gerry Quigley(Lon Cohen), Rothaford Gray(Butler), Robert Clark(Pete Drossos), Norma Clarke(Receptionist), James Purcell(Walter Neary), Jack Newman(Bernard Levine), Dwayne McLean(Matthew Birch)