43 Facts About Nero Wolfe

Nero Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky.

The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated for Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was a nominee for Best Mystery Writer of the Century.

Nero Wolfe insists upon the point: under no circumstances will he leave his home or violate his routines in order to facilitate an investigation.

Corpus implies or states that Nero Wolfe was born in Montenegro, with one exception.

Nero Wolfe is a romantic idealist, apt to go in for dashing effects to express his spirited nature.

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Nero Wolfe is strong in family loyalties, has great pride, is impatient of restraint.

Nero Wolfe is stubborn, fearless, unsubduable, capable of great self-denial to uphold his ideals.

Nero Wolfe is reticent about his youth, but apparently he was athletic, fit, and adventurous.

Nero Wolfe then joined the Serbian-Montenegrin army and fought against the Austrians and Germans.

Nero Wolfe joined the American Expeditionary Forces, and after a time in Europe and North Africa, he came to the United States.

In 1956, John D Clark theorized in an article in The Baker Street Journal that Wolfe was the offspring of an affair between Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler .

Nero Wolfe has expensive tastes, living in a comfortable and luxurious New York City brownstone on the south side of West 35th Street.

Nero Wolfe employs three live-in staff to see to his needs: Archie Goodwin, Fritz Brenner, and Theodore Horstmann .

Nero Wolfe's bedroom is on the second floor of the brownstone, and Archie's is on the third.

Nero Wolfe takes pride in being able to offer such assistance and once remarked, "The guest is a jewel resting on the cushion of hospitality".

Nero Wolfe's office becomes nearly soundproof when the doors connecting it to the front room and the hallway are closed.

The chair behind Nero Wolfe's desk is custom-built, with special springs to hold his weight; according to Archie, it is the only chair that Nero Wolfe really enjoys sitting in.

For forty years, Nero Wolfe prepares menus with Fritz and pots orchids with Theodore.

Nero Wolfe merely moved us, fictionally, from one place to the other in order to preserve his particular brand of privacy.

Nero Wolfe is both a gourmand and a gourmet, enjoying generous helpings of Fritz's cuisine three times a day.

Archie eats his separately in the kitchen, although Nero Wolfe might ask Fritz to send Archie upstairs if he has morning instructions for him.

Nero Wolfe has a rule against discussing business at the table, sometimes bent but very rarely overtly broken.

Nero 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, Archie reports that, during a relapse, Nero Wolfe once ate half a sheep in two days, different parts cooked in 20 different ways.

In Plot It Yourself, Nero Wolfe makes an unprecedented vow after Archie tells him the killer they seek has killed again.

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Nero Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia.

Nero Wolfe's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes.

Archie indicates in various stories that Nero Wolfe prefers to finish a paragraph before acknowledging an interruption in his reading.

Nero Wolfe had once remarked to me that the orchids were his concubines: insipid, expensive, parasitic and temperamental.

Nero Wolfe brought them, in their diverse forms and colors, to the limits of their perfection, and then gave them away; he had never sold one.

Nero Wolfe rarely sells his orchids—but he does give them away.

Nero Wolfe has pronounced eccentricities, as well as strict rules concerning his way of life, and their occasional violation adds spice to many of the stories:.

Books frequently mention brands that do not exist: for instance, Nero Wolfe owns a Heron automobile, which Archie drives, and Wethersill automobiles are mentioned.

Nero Wolfe serves Remisier brandy or Follansbee's gin to guests and drinks Remmers' beer.

Archie has talents without which Nero Wolfe would be lost: his remarkable memory, trained physical power, brash American humor, attractiveness to women, and ability to execute the most difficult errand virtually without instructions.

Minus Archie, Nero Wolfe would be a feckless recluse puttering in an old house on West 35th Street, New York.

Nero Wolfe takes care of routine tasks such as sorting the mail, taking dictation and answering the phone.

Nero Wolfe has been portrayed in four radio drama series on five different networks.

The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe was the first radio series that, like the Stout stories themselves, stressed characterization over plot.

An adaptation of a December 1950 episode of the NBC radio series, the production changed the genders of all of the characters; Nero Wolfe became Vera Wolfe, and Archie became Audrey Goodwin.

Nero Wolfe was co-produced by Gordon Duff and Otis L Guernsey, Jr.

Production of A Nero Wolfe Mystery coincided with Rex Stout's becoming a top-selling author some 30 years after his death.

Nero Wolfe is played by Donatas Banionis, and Archie Goodwin by Sergei Zhigunov.