Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.
Maury Chaykin
as Nero Wolfe
Timothy Hutton
as Archie Goodwin
Bill Smitrovich
as Inspector Cramer
Mimi Kuzyk
as Laura Fromm
Colin Fox
as Fritz Brenner
Saul Rubinek
as Saul Panzer
Larissa Laskin
as Jean Estey
Gary Reineke
as Denis Horan
Beau Starr
as Lips Egan
Elizabeth Saunders
as mrs. Horan
Fulvio Cecere
as Fred Durkin
Nancy Beatty
as mrs. Drossos
