This site is devoted to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, and associates, their Boswell, Rex Stout, and last but certainly not least, the cover art of the many books describing their adventures.

Nero Wolfe is the detective in a long-running series of mystery novels by Rex Stout. He lives in an old four-story brownstone in New York City, on West Thirty-fifth Street. Living with him are his assistant, Archie Goodwin, his cook, Fritz Brenner, and his orchid nurse, Theodore Horstmann. He engages in detection to support his two loves, food and orchids. He says of orchids that they are his ...

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin Created by Rex Stout (1886-1975) Compose yourself, Archie. Why taunt me Why upbraid me I am merely a genius, not a god. --Nero Wolfe humbly confesses, in Fer-de-Lance. At first glance, Rex Stout's NERO WOLFE might seem out of place among the hard-bitten, world-weary, pavement-pounding P.I.s that this site is usually devoted to. Massively overweight (somewhere ...

Nero Wolfe Character Search Search This Book For This Character Give These Details All Fer-de-Lance The League of Frightened Men The Rubber Band The Red Box Too Many Cooks Some Buried Caesar Over My Dead Body Where There's a Will Black Orchids Not Quite Dead Enough The Silent Speaker Too Many Women And Be a Villain Trouble in Triplicate All names containing the string entered will be returned.