sentences:  In "Fer-de-Lance," Stout reused a key plot point relating to the murder weapon that he had used in his early mystery "The Last Drive", which was serialized in "Golfers Magazine" in 1916.This story had been forgotten for many years—it is not mentioned in Stout's biography or in bibliographies of his works—until it was rediscovered in 2011.Maria Maffei, a family friend of one of Wolfe's free-lance men, offers to hire Wolfe to locate her missing brother Carlo, a metalworker.