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McAleer obtained the contest mailing list and began correspondence with one of the fans, Ellen Krieger. [1] Krieger desired to form a literary society devoted to Wolfe and McAleer provided the name: The Wolfe Pack. [1] The first Nero Wolfe dinner was held in 1977 at The Lotus Club in New York City. [2]
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 (December 1938), under the title "The Red Bull", it was first published as a novel by Farrar & Rinehart in 1939.
Nero Wolfe is a character who appears in George Alec Effinger's book When Gravity Fails (1986), along with the character of James Bond. Nero Wolfe is highlighted in volume 17 of the Detective Conan manga edition of Gosho Aoyama 's Mystery Library, a section of the graphic novels in which the author introduces a different detective (or ...
Book club editions are sometimes thinner and always taller (usually a quarter of an inch) than first editions. Book club editions are bound in cardboard, and first editions are bound in cloth (or have at least a cloth spine). [4] 1969, Canadian Magazine (abridged), November 1969; 1970, London: Collins Crime Club, April 13, 1970, hardcover
"Nero Wolfe talks in a way that no human being on the face of the earth has ever spoken, with the possible exception of Rex Stout after he had a gin and tonic," said Michael Jaffe, executive producer of the A&E TV series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery. [1] Nero Wolfe's erudite vocabulary is one of the hallmarks of the character.
1975, New York: The Viking Press, May 1975, hardcover [2]; In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #10, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part II, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of A Family Affair: "Blue boards, black cloth spine; front and rear covers blank; spine stamped with gold and blue foil.
Triple Jeopardy is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1952. Itself collected in the omnibus volume Kings Full of Aces (Viking 1969), the book comprises three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine:
1950, New York: The Viking Press, April 21, 1950, hardcover [1]: 81 ; Contents include "Man Alive", "Omit Flowers" and "Door to Death".In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of Three Doors to Death: "Green cloth, front cover and spine printed with black; rear cover blank.