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.

Nero Wolfe Commentaries

Mr. Wolfe's Biographies and career assessments may perhaps be said to be represented with the following works. However, these also contain insight into Mr. Stout's career.

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• Anderson, David R., Rex Stout, Frederick Ungar, 1983
• Baring-Gould, William S., Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-fifth Street, Viking, 1969
• Darby, Ken, The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe, Little, Brown, 1983
• Gotwald, Rev. Frederick G., The Nero Wolfe Handbook, Revised, 2000
• Gotwald, Rev. Frederick G., Nero Wolfe Commentaries
• Kaye, Marvin, Editor The Nero Wolfe Files: From The Wolfe Pack Gazettes Wildside Press, Publishers, 2005 (First of a two volume Anthology)
• McBride, O. E., A Stout Fellow iUniverse, Incorporated, 2003
• Stout, Rex & The Editors of Viking Press, The Nero Wolfe Cook Book, Viking Press, 1987
• Symons, Julian; Adams, Tom (Illustrator) Great Detectives, Harry N. Abrams, 1981
• Van Dover, J. Kenneth, At Wolfe's Door -- The Nero Wolfe Novels of Rex Stout, James A. Rock & Co., Publishers, 2003 (A reprint, with additional material, of the original, Borgo Press, 1991).
• Van Dover, J. Kenneth, At Wolfe's Door -- The Nero Wolfe Novels of Rex Stout, The Borgo Press, 1991