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.
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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.