The Rubber Band - Rex Stout

 

Earlier Nero Wolfe book. Paperback introduction by Nelson DeMille.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rubber_Band

Too Many Clients - Rex Stout

 

Next book up after finishing the exhausting Noble House. Have not read any Nero Wolfe since last year. I had some A&E A Nero Wolfe Mystery eps. playing last night as I was finishing up the other book. Good series. Too Many Clients was adapted there in season two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Many_Clients

Comfort Food (Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin) - Ethan Iverson

 

Nice overview of the Nero Wolfe books by Rex Stout.

https://ethaniverson.com/comfort-food-rex-stout-nero-wolfe-archie-goodwin/

The following ten Nero Wolfe novels define the idiom. They are a ritualized blend of comic and tragic: middlebrow entertainment aspiring to something greater. This era of the corpus is powered by the author’s naive post-war American optimism, and ends just as the stormiest currents of the ’60s begin. Each volume is a flawless blast of escapism, a welcome dish of comfort food when one feels battered by the elements.

The Silent Speaker (1946)
Too Many Women (1947)
And Be A Villain (1948)
Murder by the Book (1951)
Before Midnight (1955)
Might As Well Be Dead (1956)
Champagne for One (1958)
Plot It Yourself (1959)
Gambit (1962)
The Mother Hunt (1963)

 https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/nero-wolfe-paperbacks.html

Nero Wolfe Paperbacks

 

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— billyglenn (@billyglenn2000) May 14, 2022

Black Orchids - Rex Stout

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Orchids

When Wolfe came down from the plant rooms at six P.M. Monday and entered the office, I reported:

“I saw them. It was impossible to snitch a sample.”

He grunted, lowering himself into his chair. “I didn’t ask you to.”

“Who said you did, but you expected me to. There are three of them in a glass case and the guard has his feet glued.”

“What color are they?”

“They’re not black.”

“Black flowers are never black. What color are they?”

“Well.” I considered. “Say you take a piece of coal. Not anthracite. Cannel coal.”

“That’s black.”

“Wait a minute. Spread on it a thin coating of open kettle molasses. That’s it.”

“Pfui. You haven’t the faintest notion what it would look like. Neither have I.”

“I’ll go buy a piece of coal and we’ll try it.”

“No. Is the labellum uniform?”

I nodded. “Molasses on coal. The labellum is large, not as large as aurea, about like truffautiana. Cepals lanceolate. Throat tinged with orange—”

“Any sign of wilting?”

“No.”

“Go back tomorrow and look for wilting on the edges of the petals. You know it, the typical wilting after pollination. I want to know if they’ve been pollinated.”

So I went up there again Tuesday after lunch. That evening at six I added a few details to my description and reported no sign of wilting.

Jello Biafra on The Movies That Made Me

 

This should be interesting. Meet Nero Wolfe in the mix. One I've never seen and I am the biggest Nero Wolfe fan. Warlock I've seen. Small part of what will be discussed below.

https://trailersfromhell.com/podcast/jello-biafra/

The Thin Man (1934)
Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)
The Hidden Eye (1945)
Eyes In The Night (1942)
Sudden Impact (1983) – Alan Spencer’s trailer commentary
Red Dawn (1984)
Warlock (1989)
The Dead Zone (1983) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary

Sandwich of the Day: Egg and Anchovy

 

Archie Goodwin has an egg and anchovy sandwich from the drug store up the street in the A&E A Nero Wolfe Mystery I am watching now. Cop Killer is the TV episode. The Father Hunt is the book that mentions the sandwich.

https://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2017/01/04/bvc-eats-pan-bagna-or-egg-and-anchovy-sandwich/

http://onjamesplate.blogspot.com/2013/06/egg-anchovy-sandwich-micro-blog.html

https://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/tidbits/Archie_Food.htm

• “... there's a place around the corner that sells drinks and makes good egg-and-anchovy sandwiches.” TFH, ch. 1, p. 3
• [Reporting to Wolfe]  “... we ... had egg-and-anchovy sandwiches which I have told Fritz about but he wasn't interested.”   TFH, ch. 2, p. 15

Nero Wolfe - The Case of the Slaughtered Santas

 

Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe. The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe was the radio show name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Nero_Wolfe

A Nero Wolfe Mystery

 

2001-02 A&E. 20 episodes. Satisfactory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nero_Wolfe_Mystery

3:30

10:50

Beef ad precedes the promo. Nero Wolfe episode I am watching now Wolfe is trying to score some black market beef. Before I Die.

Nero Wolfe

Promos. 1981 NBC. 14 episodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Wolfe_%281981_TV_series%29

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_New_Adventures_of_Nero_Wolfe_Singles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Nero_Wolfe

Nero Wolfe Paperbacks

Rex Stout.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1949/07/16/alias-nero-wolfe-i

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Wolfe