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Lädt ... Nero Wolfe Mysteries: The Rubber Band / The Red Boxvon Rex Stout
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 1   AliceaP | Mar 5, 2014 |    )1 thefirstalicat | Feb 25, 2010 | I will say that neither book ages well, as both depend on things that are no longer the case. I think that's more of a feature than a bug, as it sets them firmly in their own time. I do think one of the interesting things that Stout did with these books was reverse the usual ways of dealing with the passage of time. Rather than having the characters age in real time (or some facsimile thereof), or keeping them and their mileu set in stone, he kept the setting absolutely modern with what he was writing, and didn't age the characters at all. An interesting choice, and one that works very well. I'd recommend it to anyone writing a series that's more or less contemporary real world. (  ) teckelvik | Oct 23, 2009 | Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheNero Wolfe (omnibus 3, 4) Beinhaltet
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:A grand master of the form, Rex Stout is one of Americaâ??s greatest mystery writers, and his literary creation Nero Wolfe is one of fictionâ??s greatest detectives. Here, in Stoutâ??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 Wolfeâ??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? Thatâ??s the premise Nero Wolfe must operate from when a beautiful woman is poisoned after indulging in a box of candy. Itâ??s a case that the great detectiveâ??no stranger himself to overindulgenceâ??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 motivesâ?¦and a killer who may have Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The Red Box started out in the style of a whodunit except where the suspects were numerous but the motive was unknown. As the story progresses, the mystery mounts around a core group of people (a family in fact) and Wolfe is forced to switch clients (unheard of for him) as the cast of characters is whittled down by murder. You can feel the mounting frustration with each turn of the page as Archie is left out of the loop (nothing new there really) and the lack of evidence takes a toll on the master detective.
Honestly, if you enjoy a riveting mystery novel then either (or both) will sate your appetite. (