Nero Wolfe
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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. He lives in a l
Carl Mueller illustrated "The Red Bull" (1938) for The American Magazine
Nero Wolfe and his boyhood friend Marko Vukčić hunted dragonflies in the mountains where Wolfe was born, in the vicinity of Lovćen
Manhattan brownstone used for exteriors in A&E TV's Nero Wolfe
Cartoon by Stan Hunt for The American Magazine (June 1949)
Fer-de-Lance (novel)
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Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout is the first Nero Wolfe detective novel, published in 1934 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. The novel appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine under the title "Point of D
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…Wolfe either takes to bed and eats nothing but bread and onion soup, or else he consults with Fritz on menus and the preparation of nonstop meals. In Fer-de-Lance (chapter 6), Archie reports that, during a relapse, Wolfe once ate half a sheep in two days, different parts cooked in 20 different ways. The relapse…
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Illustrator Fred Ludekens created the first visual interpretation of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin for the abridged version of Fer-de-Lance that appeared in The American Magazine (November 1934)
Legendary book designer George Salter produced hundreds of covers for the digest format paperbacks published by Lawrence E. Spivak's The American Mercury. One of the earliest is an abridged version of Fer-de-Lance titled Meet Nero Wolfe (A Mercury Book No. 37, undated, ca. March 1941), which utilizes the title of the 1936 Columbia Pictures adaptation of the novel.
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