A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of America's greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fiction's greatest detectives. Here, in Stout's third and fourth complete Wolfe mysteries, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth and his trusty man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, solve two of their most baffling cases. The Rubber Band What do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services, it becomes Nero Wolfe's job to look deeper and find the connection. A forty-year-old pact, a five-thousand-mile search, and a million-dollar murder are all linked to an international scandal that could rebound on the great detective and his partner, Archie, with fatal abruptness. The Red Box Murder by chocolate? That's the premise Nero Wolfe must operate from when a beautiful woman is poisoned after indulging in a box of candy. It's a case that the great detective-no stranger himself to overindulgence-is loath to take for a variety of reasons, including that it may require that he leave his comfortable brownstone. But he and Archie are compelled by a mystery that mixes high fashion and low motives...and a killer who may have made the deadliest mistake.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House USA INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9780553386035
eBay Product ID (ePID)
200802459
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Rubber Band/The Red Box 2-in-1
Author
Rex Stout
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Thriller, Crime
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
209mm
Item Width
132mm
Item Weight
397g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Rex Stout
Series Title
Nero Wolfe
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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