Never Dream Again by Richard Valdon

Baby by Gustav Klimt

Title: Never Dream Again 

Author: Richard Valdon

Publisher: not known 

Source book: The Mother Hunt by Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe #38)

Author Richard Valdon accidentally drowns in a swimming pool in Westchester. He leaves a young wife, Lucy, but he has written four bestselling novels, and one of them, Never Dream Again, sold a million copies at $5.95. 

Nero Wolfe liked a later book, His Own Image, better than Never Dream Again.

One evening Lucy Valdon finds a baby in her vestibule, together with a note indicating that her dead husband is the father of the baby.

Well, obviously since Nero Wolfe gets involved, we have to find the baby’s mother, but also the perpetrator of several murders. And do we? Not telling.

Also mentioned is No Moon Tonight by Luke Cheatham.

Lady with a Fan by Gustav Klimt