Nero Wolfe, author Rex Stout's literary take on eccentric private eyes, starts a new TV life Sunday as the hero of a regular weekly series on A&E. He didn't just stumble into it. The ratings and ...

Last year marked the 80th anniversary of “Fer-de-Lance,” the late Rex Stout’s mystery that introduced Nero Wolfe, corpulent gourmand, orchid breeder and New York brownstone-dwelling detective. Stout ...

Set in 1951, Goldsborough’s middling 16th Nero Wolfe mystery (after 2020’s Archie Goes Home) opens on a dramatic note with the arrival of a bloodied Theodore Horstmann, Wolfe’s orchid nurse, at ...

NERO WOLFE OF WEST THIRTY-FIFTH STREET by William S. Baring-Gould. 203 pages. Viking. $5.50. KINGS FULL OF ACES: A NERO WOLFE OMNIBUS by Rex Sfouf. 472 pages. Viking. $4.50. If there is anybody in ...

Playing a streetwise sleuth decked out in neat pinstripes and spiffy spats suits Timothy Hutton just fine. In “Nero Wolfe,” a new weekly A&E; drama based on the popular mystery novels by Rex Stout, ...

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Goldsborough’s 11th pastiche, Stop the Presses! A Nero Wolfe Mystery, brings to life Rex Stout’s beloved sleuths, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. What appeals to you about Nero and Archie? With other ...

IN 40 YEARS as Manhattan’s preeminent private detective, he went to only one crime scene, usually preferring to stay home. Not that Nero Wolfe liked to work from home. He hated detective work, ...

OLD Nero Wolfe, the fat, sedentary detective invented by Rex Stout, is an interesting fellow because the author is an interesting fellow. Nero has a certain resemblance to Ajeeb, the sensation of the ...

Robert Goldsborough`s mother introduced him to Nero Wolfe at an early and impressionable age. ”I was 12 or 13,” he recalls, ”and I was complaining because I was home sick and had nothing to do.” A fan ...