The Doorbell Rang is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1965. Nero Wolfe is hired to force the FBI to stop wiretapping, tailing and otherwise harassing a
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1961
Fred J. Cook's 1964 exposé, The FBI Nobody Knows, is central to the plot of The Doorbell Rang
After reading the condensed magazine version of The Doorbell Rang, John Wayne wrote to Rex Stout: "Have always enjoyed your Nero and Archie, but I read your story in the April issue of Argosy. Goodbye."
Some Buried Caesar is a detective novel by American writer Rex Stout, the sixth book featuring his character Nero Wolfe. The story first appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine, under the t
Some Buried Caesar first appeared in abridged form in The American Magazine (December 1938), with watercolor illustrations by Ronald McLeod (1897–1977)