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Gene Wolfe's short story "The Rubber Bend" (originally published in Universe 5, edited by Terry Carr; later reprinted in the Wolfe collection Storeys from the Old Hotel) is a pastiche of both Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe stories. A robot named "Noel Wide" stands in for Wolfe; his companion, another robot, is named "Arch St. Louis".
The Nero Wolfe stories are populated by a cast of supporting characters who help sustain the sense that each story takes place in familiar surroundings. The main characters are Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin .
The story is a re-working of Stout's Tecumseh Fox story Bad for Business, published later that year. "Bitter End" first appeared in book form in the posthumous limited-edition collection Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe edited by Michael Bourne, published in 1977 by James A. Rock & Co., Publishers.
The fourth paragraph [b] of the magazine version relates that it is a shortage of stainless steel — not meat — that miffs Nero Wolfe. Archie sets up the story by reporting that Wolfe wants "to build stainless-steel supports for some new plant benches, and, on account of postwar shortages, couldn't get the steel."
Nero Wolfe was finally broadcast December 18–19, 1979, as an ABC TV late show. A year later, Paramount produced Nero Wolfe , a weekly series that ran January 16 – August 25, 1981, on NBC TV. The second episode, "Death on the Doorstep", was an original story by Stephen Downing that also incorporated elements of the novel The Doorbell Rang .
"Home to Roost" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, first published as "Nero Wolfe and the Communist Killer" in the January 1952 issue of The American Magazine.It first appeared in book form in the short-story collection Triple Jeopardy, published by the Viking Press in 1952.
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.
A Nero Wolfe Mystery — Serie 2 (2010) was the first DVD release of the international version of the episode, which presents "Over My Dead Body" as a 90-minute film with a single set of titles and credits. Included is a brief scene in which Archie and Fritz put Madame Zorka to bed in the south room.