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Post by janetandjohn on Mar 15, 2017 11:46:52 GMT
Nero Wolfe is a fictional character, a brilliant, oversize, eccentric armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in New York City, and he is loath to leave his home for business or anything that would keep him from reading his books, tending his orchids, or interfering with the gourmet meals prepared by his chef. Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's sharp-witted, dapper young confidential assistant with an eye for attractive women, narrates the cases and does the legwork for the detective genius.
Stout wrote 33 novels and 39 novellas and short stories from 1934 to 1975, with most of them set in New York City. The stories have been adapted for film, radio, television and the stage. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated for Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was a nominee for Best Mystery Writer of the Century.
Nero Wolfe's current fans have a website - The Wolfepack
Fer-de-Lance (1934)
The League of Frightened Men (1935)
The Rubber Band (1936)
The Red Box (1937)
Too Many Cooks (1938)
Some Buried Caesar (1939)
Over My Dead Body (1939)
Where There's a Will (1940)
Black Orchids (1942)
Not Quite Dead Enough (1944)
The Silent Speaker (1946)
Too Many Women (1947)
And Be a Villain (1948)
Trouble in Triplicate (1949)
The Second Confession (1949)
Even in the Best Families (1950)
Three Doors to Death (1950)
Curtains or Three (1950)
Murder by the Book (1951)
Prisoner's Base (1952)
Triple Jeopardy (1952)
The Golden Spiders (1953)
The Black Mountain (1954)
Three Men Out (1954)
Before Midnight (1955)
Might As Well Be Dead (1956)
Three Witnesses (1956)
If Death Ever Slept (1957)
Three for the Chair (1957)
And Four to Go (1958)
Champagne for One (1958)
Plot It Yourself (1959)
Too Many Clients (1960)
Three at Wolfe's Door (1960) short stories
The Final Deduction (1961)
Homicide Trinity (1962)
Gambit (1962)
The Mother Hunt (1963)
Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964)
A Right to Die (1964)
The Doorbell Rang (1965)
Death of a Doxy (1966)
The Father Hunt (1968)
Death of a Dude (1969)
Please Pass the Guilt (1973)
A Family Affair (1975)
Death Times Three (1985)
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Post by eightlegs on Mar 15, 2017 17:41:06 GMT
Just a few to keep you out of mischief then Mrs Mac  |
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Post by rosemary3 on Mar 17, 2017 8:38:16 GMT
Rex Stout was one of the crime writers my grandfather liked, and I have happy memories of immersing myself in those books when I was staying with my grandparents as a child/teenager! I don't remember any of the titles now, but I remember the characters of Nero who always came up with the solution despite not doing anything, Archie who did all the running around for him, the orchids, and the lavish meals prepared by the chef!
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Post by janetandjohn on Mar 17, 2017 8:46:15 GMT
Rex Stout was one of the crime writers my grandfather liked, and I have happy memories of immersing myself in those books when I was staying with my grandparents as a child/teenager! I don't remember any of the titles now, but I remember the characters of Nero who always came up with the solution despite not doing anything, Archie who did all the running around for him, the orchids, and the lavish meals prepared by the chef! Rosemary - I discovered Nero and Archie by default at the Bookbarn. Better than cozies, you have to think a bit if you are going to outwit Nero Wolfe's brainpower! I have just treated us to the entire boxed set of the TV series (8 discs) with Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton which I caught a few of some years ago, because Mr Mac will love them but would never plough through an entire book let alone the amount listed!.....  Save |
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Post by froglady on Mar 17, 2017 9:18:07 GMT
I read all of Rex Stout books and enjoyed them all. Have reread a few of them since.
Many thanks for the list of his books. I also enjoyed the 3 books that were written after Rex Stout's death, still involving his two main characters and I felt that they did portray them as Stout would have done. Just felt it was a shame that there were only three of them. Can't recall the author offhand as it was some years ago that I read them
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Post by rosemary3 on Mar 10, 2018 16:55:50 GMT
Thanks for sending me 'Some Buried Caesar', Mrs Mac! I really enjoyed it. Some of the parts with the bull were hilarious  |
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Post by geminii on Mar 10, 2018 19:15:48 GMT
You know I love a Series, but I think this one may be a book or 10 too long even for me .. Pleased you have enjoyed them so much .. |
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Post by janetandjohn on Mar 10, 2018 21:24:47 GMT
You know I love a Series, but I think this one may be a book or 10 too long even for me .. Pleased you have enjoyed them so much .. Ah, but you read your series straight off! I treat myself to a Nero Wolfe read every now and again. They are all stand alones, but sometimes it's nice to be in from the beginning. |
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Post by geminii on Mar 10, 2018 21:30:46 GMT
You know I love a Series, but I think this one may be a book or 10 too long even for me .. Pleased you have enjoyed them so much .. Ah, but you read your series straight off! I treat myself to a Nero Wolfe read every now and again. They are all stand alones, but sometimes it's nice to be in from the beginning. Yes, I do like to start at the very beginning .. It's a very good place to start .. |
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Post by janetandjohn on Apr 17, 2018 19:03:47 GMT
Ah, but you read your series straight off! I treat myself to a Nero Wolfe read every now and again. They are all stand alones, but sometimes it's nice to be in from the beginning. Yes, I do like to start at the very beginning .. It's a very good place to start .. Of course it is. Have now read the first seven and have three on the shelves to be going on with. But I couldn't read the entire list straight off even if I had them all - that would mean I never had another one to look forward to. |
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Post by geminii on Apr 18, 2018 7:35:08 GMT
Yes, I do like to start at the very beginning .. It's a very good place to start .. Of course it is. Have now read the first seven and have three on the shelves to be going on with. But I couldn't read the entire list straight off even if I had them all - that would mean I never had another one to look forward to. As much as I would like my reading style to continue to be 'A riddle wrapped up in an enigma', I think my association here is gradually changing me .. I am a social butterfly, easilly attracted to, and distracted by, something new and everyone here has influenced me into trying something different .. so to focus my reading attention (and time) onto a long Series is now becoming harder .. I used to buy the next Alphabet Letter from the Sue Grafton Series every autumn and read it straightaway, then pine for 50 weeks until the next installment .. When I found FF, I began researching more .. Why read book 3 when to wait and start from the beginning feels like much more of a new discovery ..  There is no way I'm going to read my 72 Agatha Chrisite books back to back ..  |
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Post by windysisters on Apr 18, 2018 9:05:19 GMT
There is no way I'm going to read my 72 Agatha Chrisite books back to back .. But then Christie never wrote her books as a series. Miss Marple and Poirot don't share much of their personal lives in the novels in the way that modern crime investigators do. There's no continuous narrative from one book to the next so you can read them in any order at any time. |
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Post by geminii on Apr 18, 2018 11:28:30 GMT
There is no way I'm going to read my 72 Agatha Chrisite books back to back .. But then Christie never wrote her books as a series. Miss Marple and Poirot don't share much of their personal lives in the novels in the way that modern crime investigators do. There's no continuous narrative from one book to the next so you can read them in any order at any time. Yes, you're right to point that out, Wendy .. I was aware of that .. However, that's just me, I suppose - my 'twin' tendancies .. In some instances I am completely lazy and carefree, in others I am a perfectionist .. Reading books in the order that they were published falls completely into Cat B .. |
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