The Red Box
Book description
A lovely woman is dead, and the fortunes of overextended theatrical producer Llewellyn Frost depend on solving the mystery of the red box: two pounds of candied fruits, nuts and creams, covered with chocolate -- and laced with potassium cyanide.
When Nero Wolfe's suspicion falls on Frost's kissing cousin, Frost…
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1 author picked The Red Box as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’ve always appreciated the way Rex Stout combined two different mystery traditions—the intricate puzzles of the English whodunnit and the wisecracking voice of the American gumshoe—in his Nero Wolfe series.
Nowhere do those two styles blend together more seamlessly than in this 1937 novel, which follows Wolfe and his sardonic leg man Archie Goodwin as they try to solve a murder in New York’s fashion world. The mystery is tricky but never inscrutable, and Archie’s quips are still funny nearly a century later.
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