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Rex Stout (1886–1975)

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Om författaren

Author Rex Stout was born on December 1, 1886. A child prodigy with a gift for mathematics, Stout drifted as he became an adult, holding odd jobs in many places---cook, cabinetmaker, bellhop, hotel manager, salesman, bookkeeper, and even a guide in a pueblo. But his true talent lay in storytelling; visa mer he sold his first story, about William Howard Taft, in 1912. His most famous creation is Nero Wolfe, a 286-pound detective genius who, with sidekick Archie Goodwin, can often solve a case without leaving his room. It is the way in which the puzzle is solved that intrigues Nero Wolfe, who is much like Sherlock Holmes in his ability to use deductive reasoning. More than 60 million copies (in 24 languages) of Stout's books have been sold. Stout writes quickly, drawing upon a lifetime of impressions. He neither uses an outline nor revises; he lets his characters take over as the story develops. The classy, erudite Nero Wolfe presents for readers an alternative to the hard-boiled branch of the genre. He died on October 27, 1975 (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Serier

Verk av Rex Stout

Fer-de-Lance (1934) 1,842 exemplar
Det ringde på dörren (1965) 1,362 exemplar
Caesar är död (1939) 1,196 exemplar
And Be a Villain (1948) 1,046 exemplar
Rädda herrars klubb (1935) 1,033 exemplar
The Golden Spiders (1953) 1,028 exemplar
Over My Dead Body (1940) 1,026 exemplar
The Silent Speaker (1946) 982 exemplar
Mord bland mästerkockar (1938) 980 exemplar
Drick ur ditt glas (1958) 955 exemplar
Nero Wolfe försvinner (1950) 946 exemplar
The Second Confession (1949) 917 exemplar
Prisoner's Base (1952) 899 exemplar
Death of a Doxy (1966) 892 exemplar
Ingen i helaste världen (1964) 876 exemplar
Not Quite Dead Enough (1944) 855 exemplar
Murder by the Book (1951) 841 exemplar
The Rubber Band (1936) 809 exemplar
And Four to Go (1958) 804 exemplar
Det röda skrinet (1937) 800 exemplar
Three Doors to Death (1950) 791 exemplar
Three for the Chair (1957) 790 exemplar
Före midnatt (1955) 782 exemplar
Might As Well Be Dead (1956) 775 exemplar
Mord mellan raderna (1959) 771 exemplar
Three Witnesses (1956) 758 exemplar
Where There's a Will (1940) 749 exemplar
Homicide Trinity (1962) 746 exemplar
Death of a Dude (1969) 731 exemplar
Trouble in Triplicate (1949) 727 exemplar
Det svarta berget (1954) 727 exemplar
Lätt dams död (1968) 717 exemplar
Gambit (1962) 685 exemplar
Kvintetten som sprängdes (1975) 675 exemplar
Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964) 675 exemplar
En väv av lögn (1955) 663 exemplar
If Death Ever Slept (1957) 656 exemplar
PM för en VD (1973) 650 exemplar
Three at Wolfe's Door (1960) 642 exemplar
Mord i jungfruburen (1947) 634 exemplar
Too Many Clients (1960) 618 exemplar
Three Men Out (1954) 574 exemplar
Curtains for Three (1950) 574 exemplar
Triple Jeopardy (1952) 563 exemplar
Death Times Three (1985) 557 exemplar
Red Threads (1939) 307 exemplar
Double for Death (1939) 297 exemplar
The Nero Wolfe Cookbook (1969) 286 exemplar
The Hand in the Glove (1937) 282 exemplar
The Broken Vase (1941) 271 exemplar
Bad for Business (1940) 238 exemplar
The Mountain Cat Murders (1939) 230 exemplar
Sound of Murder, The (1941) 201 exemplar
Her Forbidden Knight (1913) 124 exemplar
Under the Andes (1984) 122 exemplar
Omnibus 1955: Full House (1955) 106 exemplar
A Prize for Princes (1994) 104 exemplar
The President Vanishes (1967) 99 exemplar
Target Practice (1998) 82 exemplar
Omnibus 1958: All Aces (1947) 67 exemplar
How Like a God (1961) 49 exemplar
Merry Murder (1994) 40 exemplar
The Great Legend (1997) 39 exemplar
Murder on the Menu (1984) 32 exemplar
Murder Most Merry (2002) 30 exemplar
Christmas Party [novella] (1957) 22 exemplar
Black Orchids [novella] (1942) 16 exemplar
Invitation to Murder #23.1 (1954) 16 exemplar
Door to Death [novella] (1949) 14 exemplar
The Illustrious Dunderheads (1942) 14 exemplar
Seed on the Wind (2023) 13 exemplar
Disguise for Murder (1999) 13 exemplar
Die Like a Dog [novella] (1954) 12 exemplar
When a Man Murders [novella] (1954) 9 exemplar
Immune to Murder [novella] (1955) 8 exemplar
The Cop-Killer (1994) 8 exemplar
Verwünschte Geschichten (1963) 8 exemplar
Fourth of July Picnic (1957) 8 exemplar
Murder is No Joke (1958) 7 exemplar
Omit Flowers (1948) 7 exemplar
A Nero Wolfe Casebook (1992) 7 exemplar
L'eccellentissimo Nero Wolfe (1980) 7 exemplar
Io, Nero Wolfe (1989) 7 exemplar
Forest Fire 6 exemplar
Das Fenster für den Tod (1965) 5 exemplar
Nero Wolfe: Private Eye (1998) 5 exemplar
Nine Short Stories (2012) 5 exemplar
Instead of Evidence (1999) 5 exemplar
Verworrene Fäden (1966) 5 exemplar
The Adventures of Nero Wolfe (2000) 5 exemplar
A Window for Death [novella] (1956) 5 exemplar
The Rodeo Murder (1960) 5 exemplar
Death of a Demon (1961) 5 exemplar
Home to Roost 5 exemplar
Counterfeit for Murder (1961) 5 exemplar
Das Beste von Nero Wolfe (1994) 5 exemplar
Death in two installments (1965) 5 exemplar
A tavola con Nero Wolfe (2005) 4 exemplar
The Zero Clue (1953) 4 exemplar
Wenn ein Mann mordet (1965) 4 exemplar
The Next Witness [novella] (1955) 4 exemplar
Eat, Drink, and Be Buried (1956) — Editor & Introduction — 4 exemplar
Rue Morgue No. 1 (1946) 4 exemplar
Easter Parade (1957) 4 exemplar
Demasiadas mujeres (1981) 3 exemplar
Man Alive {short story} (1947) 3 exemplar
Prisoner's Base (1986) 3 exemplar
By His Own Hand 3 exemplar
Rex Stout Collection (2013) 2 exemplar
Un derecho a morir (1981) 2 exemplar
a cena col delitto 2 exemplar
Too many cooks (2022) 2 exemplar
Un roman a tué 1 exemplar
Ici, radio new york (1988) 1 exemplar
Plagiat 1 exemplar
Theo Drake 1 exemplar
Testament 1 exemplar
Caso em Família 1 exemplar
Kolm seiklust 1 exemplar
A Cadeia de Crimes 1 exemplar
Černé orchideje 1 exemplar
The Doorbell Rang (1965) 1 exemplar
CRIMES IMPERFEITOS 1 exemplar
La moglie perduta — Författare — 1 exemplar
Třikrát vražda 1 exemplar
Rose Orchid 1 exemplar
Mystery Trilogy 1 exemplar
Rex Stout Mystery Magazine — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
Delitti in vacanza 1 exemplar
Stout Rex 1 exemplar
Polowanie na matk@02DBe (1992) 1 exemplar
Golden Remedy 1 exemplar
O Careless Love 1 exemplar
ROMANZI 1 exemplar
Gun Puzzle 1 exemplar
Grim Fairy Tales 1 exemplar
Likvideringslisten (1980) 1 exemplar
Tungviktare sökes 1 exemplar
Please Pass the Guilt (1973) 1 exemplar
Na toho už zapomeňte (1996) 1 exemplar
Warner & Wife (2014) 1 exemplar
Nero Wolfes bomb 1 exemplar
Livsfarlig ingång 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Death on Deadline (1987) — series creator — 309 exemplar
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 289 exemplar
A Treasury of Great Mysteries, Volumes 1-2 (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 263 exemplar
Dukat för mord : 22 matmord ur världslitteraturen (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 194 exemplar
Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 189 exemplar
A Treasury of Great Mysteries, Volume 2 (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 183 exemplar
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 176 exemplar
A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 152 exemplar
Ten Great Mysteries (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 101 exemplar
Murder for Christmas, Vol. 2 (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 86 exemplar
Murderous Schemes (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 58 exemplar
Three Times Three: A Mystery Omnibus (1964) — Bidragsgivare — 57 exemplar
Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Mystery Novels (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 57 exemplar
14 Great Detective Stories (1949) — Bidragsgivare — 57 exemplar
Detective Duos (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 51 exemplar
I Want My Mummy (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 40 exemplar
Canine Crimes (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 28 exemplar
Vogue's First Reader (1942) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
Murder Most Delectable: Savory Tales of Culinary Crimes (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 26 exemplar
Nero Wolfe: The Complete First Season (2001) — Original book — 25 exemplar
Lethal Black Book (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar
Best Detective Stories (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 17 exemplar
Cream of the Crime (1962) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Redselen i Deptford og andre studier i Sherlock Holmes (1980) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Sorte orkideer : 13 korte kriminalromaner (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Dolls Are Murder : a Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Detective-verhalen — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Nye detektivhistorier fra hele verden — Författare, vissa utgåvor2 exemplar
Writer's Roundtable (1959) 2 exemplar
Great Stories of Detection (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Best Detective Stories (Volume 2) (1964) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1952/03 (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Mystery Book (1939) 1 exemplar
The Second Mystery Book (1940) 1 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Stout, Rex Todhunter
Födelsedag
1886-12-01
Avled
1975-10-27
Begravningsplats
Cremated
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Noblesville, Indiana, USA
Dödsort
Danbury, Connecticut, USA
Bostadsorter
Noblesville, Indiana, USA (Birth)
Wakarusa, Kansas, USA
Paris, France
Danbury, Connecticut, USA
Utbildning
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Yrken
bookkeeper
sight-seeing guide
bookstore salesman
stablehand
hotel manager
detective novelist
Relationer
Stout, Ruth (sister)
Wodehouse, P. G. (friend)
Organisationer
Authors Guild
Mystery Writers of America
United States Navy
American Civil Liberties Union
Vanguard Press
Priser och utmärkelser
MWA Grand Master (1959)
Archie Goodwin Award (2005)
Kort biografi
After leaving the Navy in 1908, he became an itinerant bookkeeper and then worked as a sight-seeing guide, bookstore salesman, stablehand and hotel manager. Later he devised and implemented a school banking system which was installed in four hundred cities and towns throughout the country. In 1927 he retired from the world of finance and began writing. In 1941 he became chairman of the Writer's War Board, and in 1943 he was elected president of the Authors Guild. He was married to wife, Pola.

Medlemmar

Diskussioner

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Recensioner

I love every oone of the books in this series
 
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cspiwak | 66 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
one of my favorites in a series that's so good it's hard to choose
 
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cspiwak | 15 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
Wolfe on the Prowl
Review of the Bantam Kindle eBook edition (April 28, 2010) of the Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. hardcover original (August 14, 1935)

The roof of the old brownstone house on West Thirty-fifth Street where he had lived for twenty years, and me with him for the last seven of them, was glassed in and partitioned into rooms where varying conditions of temperature and humidity were maintained—by the vigilance of Theodore Horstmann—for the ten thousand orchids that lined the benches and shelves.


This is my second read of a Nero Wolfe mystery and I do not enjoy this character or his Watson. Wolfe is arrogant about his deductive powers, obsessed about orchids, beer and food and gives the appearance of being mostly disinterested in justice. A lot of that arrogance rubs off on Archie Goodwin who does the legwork for the housebound detective while running about town in his “roadster” (I don’t remember the specific car model ever being identified). Quirky and confident is not always appealing.

This case begins with the deaths of two Harvard alumni in suspicious circumstances. A large group of Harvard men had brought about the crippling fall of a Harvard freshman in a hazing incident. This same group now thinks that the disabled man, who has become a popular author in the meantime, is taking his late revenge on them all. First by committing the murders and then by following them up with threatening notes.

The mercenary Wolfe brings all of these frightened men together as the league of the title and proposes to them that he will solve their various fears and concerns for fees which will be adjusted to each man’s ability to pay. Most of them agree, and you already suspect that the situation is not quite what it appears to be. In a sense, Wolfe is scamming his clients. Saying anything further would be a spoiler.

See cover at https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/...
The cover of the first edition hardcover published by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. in 1935. Image sourced from Goodreads.

Although I usually enjoy reading classics from the Golden Age of Crime, the Nero Wolfe mysteries don’t provide enough enjoyable protagonists or sufficient mystery for me to continue the series.

On the Berengaria Ease of Solving Scale® I would rate this as a 3 out of 10, i.e. "a reasonably easy solve", as it becomes evident fairly early on that Wolfe’s explanation for the situation is going to be drastically different from what the plot seems to suggest.

Trivia and Links
See poster at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/League_of_frightened_men.jpg
Promotional poster for the 1937 film adaptation. Image sourced from Wikipedia.

This 2nd Nero Wolfe book was adapted as the 2nd Nero Wolfe film The League of Frightened Men (1937) directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Walter Connolly as Nero Wolfe. You can see the entire film on YouTube here. Author Rex Stout disliked the film’s portrayals of his characters so much that he refused permission for further screen adaptations for over 30 years until a first Italian language TV series adaptation in 1969 and then several TV movies & series thereafter.
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alanteder | 31 andra recensioner | Feb 19, 2024 |
The Wolfe Begins
Review of the Crimeline Kindle eBook edition (February 2018) of the Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. hardcover original (October 24, 1934)

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust to inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.


I never really took to the un-moveable detective character of Nero Wolfe, who stays in his New York brownstone and has his assistant Archie Goodwin do all the legwork on his investigations. In my transfer of my pre-GR database into GR back in 2010, I see that I had only read a few of those novels by Rex Stout. Having recent read the very early Rex Stout serialization Her Forbidden Knight (1913) I was curious to take a look at the first Nero Wolfe novel as well.

See illustration at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance.jpg...
Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin prepare to fight off the venomous snake of the title in an illustration by Fred Ludekens for an abridgement which appeared in the November 1934 issue of The American Magazine. Image sourced from Wikipedia.

The case is a bit of a bait and switch as it turns out that one of the murder victims was actually an accidental casualty. The true intended victim and the culprit become apparent early on, so it is only a case of attempting to find proof. The venom of the title snake is the murder method and at one point the villain makes a murder attempt on Wolfe himself by sending the reptile in a parcel.

See cover at https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/...
The cover of the first edition hardcover published by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. in 1934. Image sourced from Goodreads.

Wolfe makes a lot of pronouncements and Goodwin does a considerable amount of running around in his roadster to assemble witnesses and testimonies. The team has already been in place for several years at this point, and occasional references are made to earlier cases, so this is not an origin story. Everything is set in place for the series with Wolfe often seeming more concerned with his meals and drink and his orchids than the actual investigation. Despite the quirkiness. it does not make for a very endearing character.

On the Berengaria Ease of Solving Scale® I would rate this as a 1 out of 10, i.e. "an easy solve", as the culprit is identified very early due to the limited field of suspects.

Trivia and Links
Fer-De-Lance was adapted as the film Meet Nero Wolfe (1936) directed by Herbert J. Biberman and starring Edward Arnold as Nero Wolfe. You can see the entire film on YouTube here. The film includes an early appearance by Rita Hayworth (then Rita Cansino) (1918-1987) in the role of Maria (see at 9'14" onwards). The film makes several changes from the source material.
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John McAleer Introduction
Lawrence Block Introduction
Isaac Asimov Introduction, Editor
Julian Symons Contributor
Bill English Cover artist, Cover designer
Saul Rubinek Narrator, Reader
Ann Cleeves Contributor
Lee Goldberg Screenplay
Agatha Christie Contributor
R. Austin Freeman Contributor
William Rabkin Screenplay
Tom Hallman Cover artist
Eero Ahmavaara Translator
Robert Goldsborough Introduction
Otto Penzler Introduction
Reijo Kalvas Translator
Eila Pennanen Translator
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Leif Borthen Translator, Afterword
Reijo Lehtonen Translator
Alfredo Pitta Translator
Donald E. Westlake Introduction
Renate Guttmann Übersetzer, Translator
Kalevi Nyytäjä Translator
Diane Mott Davidson Introduction
Linda Barnes Introduction
Loren D. Estleman Introduction
Stuart Kaminsky Introduction
Maan Meyers Introduction
John Jakes Introduction
Peter Fischer Translator
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Peter Straub Introduction
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Walter Mosley Introduction
Martin Neumann Translator
Patricia Sprinkle Introduction
Martti Montonen Translator
William G. Tapply Introduction
Hilkka Pekkanen Translator
Marilyn Wallace Introduction
William L. Deandrea Introduction
Hanno Vammelvuo Translator
Gerald Gregg Cover artist
David Handler Introduction
John Lutz Introduction
Jane Haddam Introduction
Carolyn G. Hart Introduction
Jonathan Kellerman Introduction
Sharyn McCrumb Introduction
Seppo Virtanen Translator
John Katzenbach Introduction
Susan Conant Introduction
Dean Koontz Introduction
Stephen Greenleaf Introduction
Olli-Pekka Rönn Translator
Randy Russell Introduction
Laura Grimaldi Translator
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Paul Lehr Cover artist
Margaret Maron Introduction
Robert B. Parker Introduction
Barye Phillips Cover artist
Aaron Elkins Introduction
Judith Kelman Introduction
John J. McAleer Introduction
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Statistik

Verk
308
Även av
51
Medlemmar
45,138
Popularitet
#363
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
958
ISBN
1,374
Språk
20
Favoritmärkt
186

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