Tuesday, November 15, 2022
"The Doorbell Rang," Previewed by Lewis Nichols, New York Times, October 24, 1965
Sunday, November 13, 2022
"Royal Flush" Reviewed by Anthony Boucher, August 15, 1965
Saturday, November 12, 2022
"Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street" by William S. Baring-Gould, Reviewed by Harold C. Schonberg
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
"A Right to Die" Reviewed by Anthony Boucher, October 25, 1964
From the New York Times, October 25, 1964:
"Mike Shayne made his debut in 1939; five years earlier, Rex. Stout introduced one of the immortals among series detectives, Nero Wolfe, who has had few better novel-length cases than A RIGHT TO DIE (Viking, $3.50). Here Wolfe has a Negro client, to say nothing of a few Negro suspects, and his murder investigation is largely entangled with the affairs of R.O.C.C. (the Rights of Citizens Committee). Mr. Stout handles black-white relationships with honesty, intelligence and wit. The unconventional situation presents Wolfe as a more fully-dimensioned character than usual and stimulates his creator to one of his best puzzles."
Monday, October 31, 2022
"Trio for Blunt Instruments" Reviewed by John Canaday
"The new stories run true to formula, which for fans is a primary pleasure. Nero Wolfe's lips push in and out, in and out, when he is in the throes of revelation. Archie ogles the girls and is innocently narcissistic about his build and his dancing. Inspector Cramer gets red in the face. And Archie, when all labors are done, goes off to relax with Lily Rowan, leaving the reader in a speculative glow as to the raptures involved. Mr. Stout could perform a great public service by being more, specific about this delectable creature's ad-dress. She lives somewhere in the East Seventies. But he is too cagey."
From the New York Times, May 28, 1964.
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
"The Mother Hunt" Reviewed by Anthony Boucher, August 4, 1963
Thursday, October 20, 2022
"The Final Deduction" Reviewed by Anthony Boucher, October 22, 1961
"Readers of the latest Rex Stout novel, THE FINAL DEDUCTION (Viking, $2.95), will learn, among other things, an unfamiliar word (subdolous) and a brand-new motive for crime—both most astutely deployed by Nero Wolfe and his creator."
Monday, October 10, 2022
"Five of a Kind" Reviewed by Anthony Boucher, July 30, 1961
"A less arguable omnibus [than the first Fleming omnibus, GILT-EDGED BONDS (Macmillan, $4.95)] stars Nero Wolfe in Rex Stout's FIVE OF A KIND (Viking, $3.95) which contains the fine early vintage "The Rubber Band" (1936), the preposterous but enjoyable "In the Best Families" (1950), in which Wolfe duels with his own equivalent of Moriarty, and the three novelettes gathered in 1950 as "Three Doors to Death"—including "Door to Death" itself, one of my high favorites among Wolfe's shorter cases."
Monday, October 3, 2022
"Too Many Clients" Reviewed by Anthony Boucher, November 20, 1960
Saturday, October 1, 2022
"3 At Wolfe's Door" Reviewed by Anthony Boucher, May 15, 1960
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
William Shatner as Archie Goodwin?, March 14, 1959
from New York Times, March 14, 1959.
"William Shatner has been signed to star with Kurt Kasznar in a pilot film that may be the basis for a 'Nero Wolfe' television series."