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BARING-GOULD, WILLIAM S. Nero Wolfe of West-Thirty-Fifth Street: The Life and Times of America's Largest Detective
Viking Press, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Foxing to page ridges & dust jacket flaps, light page toning, dust jacket price clipped, minimal dust jacket edge wear. "Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created by the American mystery writer Rex Stout, who made his debut in 1934. He appeared in 33 novels and 39 short stories from the 1930s to the 1970s, with most of them set in New York City. Rex Stout originally intended Nero Wolfe's age to be 56, at least in the first books[1]. Some descriptions and remarks in the later books show that Stout was allowing his principal characters to age somewhat, although much more slowly than the world they inhabit. The books take place contemporaneously with their writing, however, so that they do depict a changing landscape and society, primarily that of New York City, over the course of 40 years. Wolfe is is 5'11" tall and is frequently said by the books' narrator to weigh "a seventh of a ton" (about 286 pounds or 130 kg). At the time of the first book, 1934, this was intended to indicate unusual obesity, especially through the use of the word "ton" as the unit of measure. [2] Although capable of normal movement, Wolfe tries to adhere to a policy of never leaving his house for business reasons and seldom for any reason at all. As the British critic Kingsley Amis says, Wolfe "distrust[s] all machines more complicated than a wheelbarrow and [has] to be heavily pressured each time before getting into a car." [3] Wolfe was born in Montenegro. He is reticent about his youth, but apparently he was athletic, fit, and adventurous. Before World War I, he spied for the Austrian government, but had a change of heart when the war began. He then joined the Serbian-Montenegrin army (rebuilt as a joint force after both countries suffered disastrous losses) and fought against the Austrians and Germans. After a time in Europe and North Africa, he came to the United States." -- Wikipedia CONTENTS: Foreword; CAST OF CHARACTERS: The Private Detective; The Man of Action; An Old Brownstone House on West Thirty-Fifth Street; The Major Domo; The Oldest and Best Friend Wolfe Ever Had; The Man of Mystery; Homicide Squad; And teh West Thirty-Fifth Street Irregulars; THE CASE-BOOK OF NERO WOLFE: Alias Nero Wolfe; Nero Wolfe, Secret Agent; Portrait of Archie as a Young Man; A Fer-de-Lance and Some Frightened Men; A Rubber Band, a Red Box. Too Many Cooks, and a Buried Casear; Bodies, Wills, Black Orchids, and a Cordial Invitation to Meet Death;Wolfe and Archie go to War; Help Wanted; Nero Wolfe versus Arnold Zeck; Backtrack: Omit Flowers, a Door to Death, a Gun with Wings, and a Disguise for Murder; Into the Fifties with Murders by the Books; The Black Mountain and Beyond; A Window for Death, Immune to Murder, and Too Many Detectives; No Holiday for Nero Wolfe; Eeny Meeny Murder Mo; The Many Clients of 1960 Gambits; A Doorbell Rings, and a Doxy Dies; FROM THE FILES OF ARCHIE GOODWIN: The Philosophy of Nero Wolfe; The Library of Nero Wolfe; Wining and Dining with Nero Wolfe; A Wolfean Guide to the Orchidacae; The Fiscal Nero Wolfe.
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