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  1. I’ve already read a good few, but one of my reading goals this year is to read all of the Nero Wolfe books in order (including rereading the ones I’ve read), so how appropriate that this pops up :)

  2. Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created in 1934 by the American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe's confidential assistant Archie Goodwin narrates the cases of the detective genius. Stout wrote 33 novels and 39 short stories from 1934 to 1974, with most of them set in New York City.

    • Fer-De-Lance
    • The League of Frightened Men
    • Too Many Cooks
    • Some Buried Caesar
    • Over My Dead Body
    • Black Orchids
    • And Be A Villain
    • In The Best Families
    • The Black Mountain
    • The Mother Hunt

    In Fer-de-Lance, the 1934 debut Nero Wolfe story, Nero and his friend Archie get involved with the most deadly snake, the fer-de-lance. This dreadful snake is closely related to the murders of a college professor and a local immigrant. Nero Wolfe hopes to solve the mystery without getting poisoned himself and uses his wit and clever observations to...

    The League of Frightened Menis the second book in the Nero Wolfe series and was published just after Fer-de-Lance in 1935. The novel tells the story of a group of frightened college friends who instigated a prank that left their friend tragically crippled. After an unexpected death at a class reunion and mysterious poems that promise revenge, the g...

    “Too many cooks spoil the broth” is a common phrase, but in this novel, Too Many Cooks, it means there’s a murder that Nero Wolfe can only solve. At a five-star gathering of some of the world’s best chefs and cooks, Wolfe is asked to give the keynote speech at the party. However, a surprise of poison and murder is mixed in with the other ingredient...

    In Some Buried Caesar, Archie and Nero are stranded when their car breaks down on the side of the road in a private pasture. A nearby local feud over the ownership of a prized bull leads to murder after a restaurant plans to buy the cow and feed it to the town as a publicity stunt. While many point the finger at the bull itself, Nero is convinced t...

    In the novel Over My Dead Body, a beautiful woman from the Balkans asks Nero for help after she is blamed for the disappearance of some valuable diamonds. Even more shocking, she claims to be Nero’s daughter. When he comes to help figure out what’s going on, a shocking murder puts even more pressure on the case. Nero Wolfe and Archie need to sort t...

    Nero Wolfe has decided to travel to a flower show to see a rare black orchid, only to come across a startling murder that sends the entire event into chaos. Wolfe and Archie work to solve the crime while working on another case on the side involving deadly pen pal letters to a widower. The two cases are more closely linked than they thought, and, i...

    Using Rex Stout’s knowledge of radio, And Be a Villaincenters around a radio personality whose fear of being on air is confirmed when a guest dies at the microphone. Nero Wolfe comes to solve the case and figure out what killed the guest: a bad beverage or a dangerous killer. With seemingly everyone involved in the case lying about different facts,...

    In an unusual change of form, Archie is left to solve the murder of an aging millionaire on his own when a letter bomb seemingly scares Wolfe away from the case. Before she died, the victim was concerned about the behavior of her young trophy husband and asked Archie to infiltrate a party to discover where he was getting his money. With a surprisin...

    In The Black Mountain, a close friend of Nero Wolfe is killed, and the detective takes on the case to find the killer and bring them to justice. However, this is no ordinary killing but part of a much larger plot. In the heart of Montenegro, international threats and political intrigues complicate the case and put both Wolfe and Archie in danger.

    What first appears like a simple case— tracking down the mother of an abandoned baby—soon turns complicated for Wolfe and Archie. In The Mother Hunt, a baby is left on the doorstep of a widow, who is convinced the father is her deceased playboy husband. However, when trying to find the baby’s mother, Wolfe comes up against corpses, resentful police...

  3. Aug 29, 2023 · Complete List of Nero Wolfe Books in Order. This section is split into two parts based on the authors from different eras, Rex Stout and Robert Goldsborough. Nero Wolfe’s books are entertaining because of the characters and their diverse personalities and traits. It’s a wondrous mixture of both crime and humor.

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    • Her Forbidden Knight. By Rex Stout. Lila Williams is a young telegraph operator who is adored by the male guests of Lamartine Hotel. When she falls for the charms of John Knowlton—a millionaire and a secret criminal—Lila’s troupe of unlikely guardians fight to keep her safe.
    • The Last Drive. The titular story in this collection was actually the inspiration for Stout’s first Nero Wolfe mystery, Fer-de-Lance. Published in 1916, the story follows Canby Rankin—president of a golf club and an amateur sleuth—after a colonel is poisoned on the green.
    • Fer-de-Lance. By Rex Stout. Fer-de-Lance was the world’s first introduction to Nero Wolfe, Stout’s eccentric and overweight (as his partner, Archie Goodwin, often remarks) detective hero.
    • The Hand in the Glove. By Rex Stout. Stout was one of the first to popularize female private eyes in fiction, which he did in his 1937 novel, The Hand in the Glove.
  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nero_WolfeNero Wolfe - Wikipedia

    Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky.

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  6. Nero Wolfe is a licensed private investigator in New York City. The original series was written by Rex Stout. With the approval of the estate of Rex Stout, journalist Robert Goldsborough has written thirteen Nero Wolfe mysteries (so far), published by Bantam Books.