The Nero Wolfe Files Author:Marvin Kaye (Editor) Since 1977, The Wolfe Pack has published The Gazette, chockful of articles and tales of America's greatest sleuth, Nero Wolfe, who prefers beer and orchids to working at his West 35th Street brownstone. But thanks to Wolfe's wisecracking associate Archie Goodwin and his agent REX STOUT, Wolfe's seventy-two cases are mystery classics.... more » THE NERO WOLFE FILES is a generous collection of Neronian reading delights selected from over twenty-five years of The Gazette by veteran anthologist, novelist, and charter member of The Wolfe Pack Marvin Kaye.
Stories include:
I. Rex tremendae; Nero Wolfe: a retrospective / by John McAleer
Rex Stout and his two lives / by Jacques Barzun
Chronology of the Nero Wolfe mysteries adapted from a compilation / by Stephen F. Schultheis
Working with Rex Stout / by Barbara Benjamin
A meeting of minds / by Marion S. Wilcox
Rex Stout
Minister of propaganda / by Charles E. Burns
Pola Weinbach Stout (1902-1984) / by Eleanor Sullivan
Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe, and Lawrence of Arabia / by Robert Franks
Recipe for a cookbook / by Barbara Burn
A labor of love : the Nero Wolfe TV series / by Michael Jaffe
A black orchid toast / by Isaac Asimov
Stout on Stout / by Andrew McAleer
II. The Wolfe Pack; A letter from the mayor / by Edward I. Koch
How the Wolfe Pack began / by Ellen Kreiger
Notes on the 1st Annual Black Orchid Banquet / by Marjorie Mortensen
Greetings to the Wolfe Pack / by Jacques Barzun
A welcome to the Wolfe Pack / by John McAleer
Facsimilie of the menu of the 1st Wolfe Pack Banquet
Who's who in the Wolfe Pack
the two werowances / by Ellen Kreiger and Jonathan Levine
The Nero Award's origins and winners / by Ellen Kreiger
The American dinner 1987
Death of a diner / by Ettagale Blauer
A memorial song parody / by Marvin Kaye
Henry's song to Mr. Wolfe / by Henry Enberg
Appendices ; Black orchid song parodies, shad roe limericks & other lampoons / by Isaac Asimov, Bill DeAndrae, Gahan Wilson, & other members of the Wolfe Pack
Nero Wolfe quizzes / by Henry Enberg & Tenby Storm