Pierre Dakos, a waiter at the Rusterman restaurant, who turned to the famous private investigator Niro Wolfe for help, dies in his house as a result of a homemade bomb explosion. For Wolfe, this case becomes "family" - he is ready to investigate the murder of Dakos without any fee, because it has become a daring challenge and an outrageous personal insult to the greatest detective of the 20th century. ("Family Affair")