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 ...

This latest entry in the estimable Nero Wolfe audio canon is a veritable time machine, transporting listeners back not only to the upscale New York City of the 1950s, but also to an era when wit and ...

When “The Red Box” opens Friday at Park Square Theatre, the audience will include Park Square subscribers, one very interested daughter and a werowance. Werowhat is a werowance? It’s what the Wolfe ...

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 ...

Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe is arguably one of the two or three most beloved detectives in fiction, and this fifth volume of Goldsborough's authorized re-creations of the series hero provides yet another ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Last week, Jacket Copy looked at a various projects focused on authors’ ...

Murder is a tragedy, except when it’s an art form fit for the pages of a pulp novel, the wide screen or for television, as in Sunday night’s Nero Wolfe mystery (8 p.m., A&E;). In this case, murder is ...

Nero Wolfe, the fat detective of Rex Stout’s novels, towers over his rivals in one respect: he is a superman who talks like a superman. It is a very tough literary trick to make a mastermind sound ...