Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 04 - The Red Box

Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 04 - The Red Box

Rex Stout

Mystery & Thrillers

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 wants the detective to kill the sickly sweet case--before it kills him.
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Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 21 - Triple Jeopardy

Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 21 - Triple Jeopardy

Rex Stout

Mystery & Thrillers

Don't tempt Nero Wolfe to find the culprit. When foul play's the game, he always wins - and in these three crime puzzles, the stakes are high. First, there's little nourishment for the detective when someone drops a poison pellet into a vitamin addict's pillbox. Then, a murdered policeman leaves a clue folded in a newspaper, and Wolfe has to read the fine print to decipher his killer's identity. And what do you do when a chimp is the only witness to a crime? This is no time for monkeyshines from the world's most celebrated armchair detective.
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Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 03 - The Rubber Band

Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 03 - The Rubber Band

Rex Stout

Mystery & Thrillers

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.
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Rex Stout - Dol Bonner 1937 - The Hand in the Glove

Rex Stout - Dol Bonner 1937 - The Hand in the Glove

Rex Stout

Mystery & Thrillers

Wealthy industrialist P. L. Storrs has never approved of lady detectives, and he normally would not have made an exception of Theodolina "Dol" Bonner. But faced with a very delicate problem and surprisingly impressed, he hires her instantly. It seems that Storrs' bird-witted wife has fallen under the spell of a smooth-talking religious charlatan, and now Storrs wants Dol to get the goods on him. But when the gorgeous gumshoe arrives at Storrs' picturesque country estate, Birchhaven, to meet the scoundrel, she finds more than she bargained for -- namely, the corpse of her client and a garden party teeming with suspects!
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Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 30 - Champagne for One

Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 30 - Champagne for One

Rex Stout

Mystery & Thrillers

Faith Usher talked about taking her own life and even kept cyanide in her purse. So when she died from a lethal champagne cocktail in the middle of a high society dinner party, everyone called it suicide--including the police. But Nero Wolfe isn't convinced--and neither is Archie. Especially when Wolfe is warned by four men against taking the case. Deception, blackmail, and a killer who may have pulled off the perfect crime...it' s a challenge Nero Wolfe can't resist.
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Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 41 - Trio for Blunt Instruments

Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe 41 - Trio for Blunt Instruments

Rex Stout

Mystery & Thrillers

If Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, would ever admit to an Achilles' heel-which they wouldn't-it would be a weakness for damsels in distress. In these three charming chillers the duo answer the call of helpless heroines with nothing to lose-except their lives. First a beautiful young Aphrodite comes to Nero looking for a hero-and the answer to the mystery of her father's death....Then an old flame of Archie's reignites with a plan that may corner him into a lifetime commitment-behind bars....And finally a detective's work is never done, as a hot tip leads the team into the sizzling center of a sexy scandal that could leave them cold-dead cold.
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