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.

External links

• Nero Wolfe profile at thrillingdetective.com
• The Official Site of the Nero Wolfe Fan Club, The Wolfe Pack
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