Nero wolfe detective stories

In this fiction series, the antagonist is desperate for work and accepts a job offer half-heartedly. Two of the L. A members have since died in suspicious situations, and now, a third member has gone missing. He takes the job, on the strict agreement of specific payment if he successfully catches the killer.

While the disabled classmate remains the chief suspect, Wolfe focuses on the other members of the group. He calls the members once more, as he comes up with a plan and explains to them his theory about the deaths and the missing person.

He strategically lays out a solid plan to ensure that he is paid. Quite an entertaining story! The newest book is Death Times Three and was released on December, 1st Home » Series » Nero Wolfe. Nero Wolfe: Motherhunt Part 2.

Nero Wolfe: Immune To Murder. Nero Wolfe: The Silent Speaker. Nero Wolfe: Motherhunt. Nero Wolfe: Season 2. Nero Wolfe: Help Wanted, Male. Photos Top cast Edit. David Schurmann Director 2 as Director 2 …. Richard Waugh Director 1 as Director 1 …. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Nero Wolfe Maury Chaykin , is an eccentric orchid loving brilliant detective with a taste for fine cuisine.

Nero Wolfe solves extremely difficult crimes while rarely leaving his mansion, relying on the footwork of Goodwin to gather his evidence. A missing typewriter, a mysterious ransom note—and a beautiful corpse. Step into the un But no sooner does the gourmandizing sleuth clean up this first course of murder than he faces a gun-toting w When an abandoned baby is left on her doorstep, the young socialite widow knows only too well the identity of the father: her deceased philanderer of a husband.

But who is the mother? The case seems like child's play to Wolfe, until the first dead bo She had everything: money, beauty, a devoted fiance Susan Brooke was young, bright, attractive, financially independent, white--and murdered. All the clues point to her dapper, dauntl In these three charming chillers the duo answer the call of helpless hero There's no one or nothing the great detective Nero Wolfe wouldn't take on if the price was right.

That's something wealthy society widow Rachel Bruner is counting on when she writes him a check for a whopping hundred grand. But even Wolfe has a momen A kept woman, two kinds of blackmail, a beautiful corpse Private eye Orrie Cather sometimes did legwork for Nero Wolfe--but now he's the poor sap in need of the great detective.

The pretty young thing he dallied with had gotten herself inconve A pregnant daughter, an angry father The great detective travels to Montana, eats canned soup, makes his own bed and assists Archie on a very messy rifle-shot murder. Step into the unassuming Thirty-fifth Street brownstone, and A bomb blows up in the desk of a top TV executive.

Was it intended for him or the man who opened the drawer? They each had enemies enough to die a dozen times over. Was it the jealous wife or the ambitious partner?

The secretary who got passed around Nero Wolfe's last recorded case! Wolfe never works without a well-heeled client and a sizable fee, but when a bomb rocks his brownstone, killing his favorite waiter from his favorite restaurant, the world's greatest gourmet takes it as a personal aff Now, with the aid of the Stout estate and Stout's official biographer, John McAleer, Bantam Books is proud to publish for the first time in book form this newly discovered collection of three Nero Wolfe novellas.

When the whole mess fell into Nerds lap, the sedentary detective and Archie Goodwin had to crack a mystery that str Length: 50 Books. January Series List in Order. The League of Frightened Men. The Rubber Band. The Red Box. Too Many Cooks. Some Buried Caesar. Over My Dead Body. Where There's a Will. Black Orchids. And Be a Villain by Rex Stout. Radio talk show host Madeline Fraser's worst night… More. Shelve And Be a Villain.

Trouble in Triplicate by Rex Stout. They all thought they were about to die. Shelve Trouble in Triplicate. The Second Confession by Rex Stout. When a millionaire businessman hires the sedentary… More. Shelve The Second Confession. Three Doors to Death by Rex Stout. Three cases bring perplexing challenges to Nero Wo… More. Shelve Three Doors to Death. In the Best Families by Rex Stout. Aging millionairess Mrs. Rackham asks Nero Wolfe t… More.

Shelve In the Best Families. Curtains for Three by Rex Stout. Three clever murderers challenge Nero Wolfe in cas… More. Shelve Curtains for Three. Murder by the Book by Rex Stout. It wasn't Leonard Dykes's writing style that offen… More. Shelve Murder by the Book. Triple Jeopardy by Rex Stout. Don't tempt Nero Wolfe to find the culprit. When f… More.

Shelve Triple Jeopardy. Prisoner's Base by Rex Stout. Hours after Priscilla Eads pleads with him to take… More. Shelve Prisoner's Base. The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout. Nero Wolfe was almost as famous for his wealthy cl… More. Shelve The Golden Spiders. Three Men Out by Rex Stout. A trio of mystery cases not to be missed by Nero W… More. Shelve Three Men Out.

The Black Mountain by Rex Stout. Shelve The Black Mountain. Before Midnight by Rex Stout. Cheaters never prosper, but Nero Wolfe encounters … More. Shelve Before Midnight.