Finally, in 2000, Wolfe and Archie found the right match. A two-hour A&E TV movie of The Golden Spiders starred Maury Chaykin as Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie, and it was popular enough for A&E to make it into a series for two seasons. I remember both men being great in it, and a key reason it was better than anything attempted before is that every episode was based on one of the actual Rex Stout stories, and they emphasized character and dialogue (always the best parts of the Wolfe books) over artificial plots and commercial-break cliffhangers. The episodes just felt like the books. They’re available on DVD from A&E and streamable (like the Conrad/Horsley series) from YouTube.

Auburn, California: The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., Mystery Masters ISBN 1-57270-494-2 January 9, 2006, audio CD (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard) What you still see is the same interaction between Wolfe and Archie Goodwin,which is always entertaining. Another aspect you don't get in the rest of the Wolfe stories is a view of Stout's view of a communist country In the middle of the Cold War.Although Stritar is skeptical of Wolfe's explanation, he allows the two to go about their business, but dispatches Jubé to follow them. Wolfe and Archie travel to the home of Marko's nephew Danilo, who had passed the messages on to Telesio and who has been helping Marko and Carla smuggle weapons and supplies in from the United States. Danilo learns of Jubé's surveillance and has him killed, then reluctantly agrees to take Wolfe and Archie into the mountains for a meeting with Josip Pasic, one member of a guerrilla team in the independence movement. From Pasic, Wolfe learns that Carla had begun to suspect that a spy had infiltrated the group; she slipped into Albania to infiltrate a Russian-controlled fort and gather information, only to be killed instead. Using Rex Stout’s knowledge of radio, And Be a Villaincenters around a radio personality whose fear of being on air is confirmed when a guest dies at the microphone. Nero Wolfe comes to solve the case and figure out what killed the guest: a bad beverage or a dangerous killer. With seemingly everyone involved in the case lying about different facts, it’s a challenging puzzle that only Nero Wolfe can solve.

Wolfe aficionados know this speculation, but I doubt everybody does, so before you make a belated visit to the online baby registry, here are a few things to take into account.Darby, Ken, The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe (1983, Little, Brown and Company; ISBN 0-316-17280-4). Biography of the brownstone "as told by Archie Goodwin." Includes detailed floor plans. Stout, Rex (April 19, 1963). "Why Nero Wolfe Likes Orchids". Life. Vol.54, no.16. p.108 . Retrieved 2015-03-20. I devoured Nero Wolfe books when I was a kid. I remember walking into the bookstore and heading straight to the mystery section to buy the next two or three in the series and then reading them over the next couple of weeks.

Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Dr. Johnson said: “Such excess of stupidity is not in nature.” Do you think Archie Goodwin should write and talk like a grade-school English teacher? Having written nearly three million of his words I know quite well how he handles them. Not a single one of the changes you suggest makes any sense….. Oh, they’re not always in conflict.’ Harvey was smiling, not apologetically. ‘The interests of slave and master often jibe.’”

The League of Frightened Men is the second book in the Nero Wolfe series and was published just after Fer-de-Lance in 1935. The novel tells the story of a group of frightened college friends who instigated a prank that left their friend tragically crippled. After an unexpected death at a class reunion and mysterious poems that promise revenge, the group is convinced their old friend is after them. They turn to Nero Wolfe and Archie to solve the case and save their lives. Going Commando: Telesio urges Wolfe and Archie not to bother with underwear, so that they can fit more chocolate into their luggage.