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 chocolateāand laced with potassium cyanide. When Nero Wolfeās suspicion falls on Frostās kissing cousin, Frost wants the detective to kill the sickly sweet caseābefore it kills him.
Introduction by Carolyn G. Hart
āIt is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.āāThe New York Times Book Review
A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of Americaās greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertainedāand puzzledāmillions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.
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 chocolateāand laced with potassium cyanide. When Nero Wolfeās suspicion falls on Frostās kissing cousin, Frost wants the detective to kill the sickly sweet caseābefore it kills him.
Introduction by Carolyn G. Hart
āIt is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.āāThe New York Times Book Review
A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of Americaās greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time. Together, Stout and Wolfe have entertainedāand puzzledāmillions of mystery fans around the world. Now, with his perambulatory man-about-town, Archie Goodwin, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth is back in the original seventy-three cases of crime and detection written by the inimitable master himself, Rex Stout.