Books nero wolfe series

Book 2. A summary from the back cover: Paul Chapin's colleg… More. Shelve The League of Frightened Men. Book 3. The Rubber Band by Rex Stout. What do a Wild West lynching and a respected Engli… More.

Shelve The Rubber Band. Book 4. The Red Box by Rex Stout. A woman is dead, and the fortunes of overextended … More. Shelve The Red Box. Book 5. Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout. The guest at a gathering of the greatest chefs in … More. Shelve Too Many Cooks. Book 6. Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout. An automobile accident strands Nero Wolfe and Arch… More.

Shelve Some Buried Caesar. Book 7. When a Balkan beauty gets in trouble over some mis… More. Shelve Over My Dead Body. Book 8. Where There's a Will by Rex Stout. Investigating the bizarre will of late multimillio… More. Shelve Where There's a Will. Book 9. Black Orchids by Rex Stout. Not much can get Wolfe to leave his comfortable br… More.

Shelve Black Orchids. Book The U. Shelve Not Quite Dead Enough. The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout. When a powerful government official,scheduled to s… More. Shelve The Silent Speaker. Too Many Women by Rex Stout. Celebrated sleuth Nero Wolfe is renowned for crack… More. Shelve Too Many Women. 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.

Three Witnesses by Rex Stout. In three cases--a millionaire who writes his own d… More. He read the entire Bible at only four years old and crowned the Kansas spelling bee champion at 13 years of age. He served in the U. Stout wrote his first book Nero Wolfe in and went on to publish subsequent stories in the detective Nero Wolfe saga until Detective Nero Wolfe and his aide Archie Goodwin featured in 33 novels between and In , he wrote another book, The Hand in the Glove.

After , Stout focused solely on the fiction mystery field and exclusively on the Nero Wolfe saga after through , when he died aged Fer-de-Lance : Nero Wolfe is a detective who collaborates with his P.

A Archie Goodwin. The book is set in New York City. The fer-de-lance is one of the most dangerous and dreaded snakes on earth. When someone wraps one as a gift to Nero Wolfe, his assistant, Mr. Goodwin knows he is drawing closer to solve the evil string of murders of a college president and an immigrant. Wolfe plays the snake charmer in the hopes to apprehend the killer filled with hate and poison in his heart.

Nero Wolfe is an obese genius who hardly leaves his home; instead, he spends his time-solving murders from fragments of evidence collected by his helpers. On his worst days, he lives in mountains of food prepared by his chef who is an expert gourmet chef. Wolfe mostly relies on his chief aide, Archie, a wisecracking and witty person who works in perfect harmony with his intellectual boss.

The humor in this novel involves the innuendo of an emotionless relationship between Archie and his boss, Detective Nero Wolfe. A disabled man, who was injured in a grizzly accident at Harvard, is in trouble. Fifteen men are frightened that the former Harvard classmate, is on a killing leash and plans to take them out, one-by-one. The former classmates have been haunted by the despicable incident every since the victim was crippled in a hazing incident at Harvard.