Nero Wolfe

Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective created by the prolific American author Rex Stout in the 1930s and featured in dozens of books and short stories (many of which were later collected into books). Wolfe, probably the best-known consulting detective after Sherlock Holmes, was born in 1892 or 1893 in Montenegro and fought in World War I against the Germans. He weighs about 285 pounds and is 5'11" tall. He raises orchids as a hobby in a rooftop greenhouse in his New York City brownstone rowhouse on West 35th Street with the help of his employee Theodore Horstmann, drinks copious amounts of beer throughout the day and is a gourmand (and so employs a live-in cook, Fritz Brenner), and almost never leaves his house (where his office is). His leg-work is done by another live-in employee, Archie Goodwin, who is also a licensed detective.

Biographies of Rex Stout

• Bourne, Michael, Rex Stout: An Informal Interview, in Corsage, James A. Rock & Co., Publishers.
• McAleer, John J, Rex Stout: A Majesty's Life with foreword by P. G. Wodehouse, James A. Rock & Co., Publishers, 2002. (A reprint, with additional forewords, of Rex Stout: A Biography, Little, Brown, 1977.)
• McAleer, John J, Royal Decree - Conversations with Rex Stout Pontes Press, Ashton, MD, 1983.
• McAleer, John J, Queens Counsel - Conversations with Ruth Stout on her brother Rex Stout Pontes Press, Ashton, MD, 1987.
• McAleer, John J, Rex Stout Journals Pontes Press, Ashton, MD, 1987.

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• Townsend, Guy M. (Editor) with McAleer, John, J. and Sapp, Judson C. and Schemer, Arriean, Rex Stout An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography, Garland, 1980