Over My Dead Body (1940) had introduced Carla Wolfe, with a very different Yugoslavia in the background and British and Nazi agents clashing in New York. "Home to Roost," a novella published in the collection Triple Jeopardy (1952), involves Wolfe in the exposure of a clandestine Communist and murderer. Stout makes no bones about his contempt for Communism; consistently, however, he avoids jingoism and phobias: the Communists thwarted by Wolfe and Archie are punished for what they have done, not for what they believe.