The Case of the Missing Box is an illustrated work composed of paired images and texts, presented within a minimal narrative frame. A Reader arrives in a library and encounters an envelope left on a table. Inside are a number of loose pages. Each page contains a single image accompanied by a block of text that appears procedural or documentary in nature. No instructions are provided regarding order or interpretation. The images are atmospheric and specific. The texts are calm, precise, and detached, describing conditions, intervals, records, and closures without reference to the images they accompany. Together, they form an assemblage that must be encountered through attention rather than guidance.

The book offers no explanation, commentary, or resolution. It presents material as it is found.