Kurt’s Reviews > Three at Wolfe's Door > Status Update

After getting home at five in the morning, and leaving a note for Fritz that I would be down at 10:45, I had set the alarm clock for ten o'clock. That had seemed sensible, but the trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it, seems absurd when it goes off.

The group out on the terrace had just gone there for coffee after leaving the dining room, where the high point of the meal had been two dozen young blue grouse which had come from Montana on man-made wings, their own having stopped working.

If you think a problem child is tough, try handling a problem elephant. [Wolfe] is plenty knotty when he is himself, and that day he was really special.