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Rex Stout and commentator Upton Close take questions [44] March 24, 1945 CBS 30 min. A Report to the Nation: Program includes an interview with Rex Stout after his return from Europe, where he asked Germans what they thought about democracy Cast: John Daly (host), Richard C. Hottelet, Rex Stout, Brian Aherne, Clare Boothe Luce [45] 1945 Synd 30 ...
Writer Rex Stout with biographer John J. McAleer in the 1970s. This is a bibliography of fiction by and works about Rex Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975), an American writer noted for his detective fiction.
Red Threads is a mystery novel by American writer Rex Stout, starring his detective Inspector Cramer, first published in 1939. Police Inspector Cramer was the protagonist of one mystery written by Stout in 1939.
Before Midnight is a novel by American author Rex Stout, published in 1955 by Viking Press. It is the 18th detective novel featuring curmudgeonly New York sleuth Nero Wolfe, as narrated by sidekick Archie Goodwin. The story was also collected in the omnibus volume Three Trumps (Viking 1973).
Robert Gerald Goldsborough (born October 3, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist and writer of mystery novels.He worked for 45 years for the Chicago Tribune and Advertising Age, but gained prominence as the author of a series of 17 authorized pastiches of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe detective stories, published from 1986 to 1994 and from 2012 to 2023.
According to John J. McAleer, Rex Stout's official biographer, during his stint in the Navy, Stout came into contact with Alvey A. Adee, who was a major influence on Stout's creation of Nero Wolfe. Adee was a scholar, sleuth, gourmet, bachelor, a model of efficiency, a master of the English language, and is said to have inspired the ...
Isaac Anderson, The New York Times Book Review — Rex Stout, turning temporarily from the slow-moving, subtle-minded mystery novel character, Nero Wolfe, has invented one called Alphabet Hicks, who is described as Wolfe's opposite, being a dynamo and somewhat impish. Farrar & Rinehart will introduce the new character in a book next Fall.
Stout's biographer states that Stout hit on the idea of the FBI while reading Cook's exposé; Stout sent Cook an autographed copy of The Doorbell Rang, thanking him for "priming my pump". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Stout had not before used a Wolfe book to air his own political views so extensively, and did not do so again until 1975's A Family Affair .