Black Orchid Weekend
December 5, 6, 7, 2008

We hope you will join us for all or part of the upcoming Black Orchid Weekend.

Friday, December 5, at 6:30 p.m. we will conduct a Book Discussion and showing of a televised version of The Golden Spiders in a private room at historic Pete's Tavern at the corner of Irving Place and E. 18th Street in Manhattan.

Saturday, December 6, at 2:00 p.m. is the afternoon Assembly with an eclectic array of speakers, including Marco Conelli, an NYPD Detective, published mystery writer, and member of The Wolfe Pack, on corpus-related matters. It will be held at the Hotel Jolly Madison Towers, Madison Avenue and E. 38th Street.

Saturday evening starting at 6:30 p.m., the Thirty First annual Black Orchid Banquet, also at the Hotel Jolly Madison Towers, will feature:

• Cocktail “hour” with cash bar starting at 6:30 p.m.
  (For those looking to relax between the Assembly and the Banquet, a comfortable bar/lounge is located in the hotel lobby.)
• Banquet starting at 7:15 p.m., based upon recipes inspired by The Nero Wolfe Cookbook and the Corpus
• Keynote Speaker Frank Gilroy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose many works include the screenplay to the first TV adaptation of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novel, The Doorbell Rang
• Presentation of this year’s Nero Award for best American mystery, as well as the Black Orchid Novella Award, in conjunction with Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, for a new mystery novella
• the inevitable quizzes and toasts.

Sunday Brunch on December 7 will begin at 11:00 a.m. -- late enough for those who need to sleep in after staying up late at the banquet; early enough for out-of-towners to catch a late afternoon plane home.  Like the book discussion, the brunch will take place in a private room at Pete's Tavern, Irving Place at 18th Street.

N.B.: SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICE OF $150.00
instead of $155.00 per person
if you register for all four events
before 11/15/08

This weekend promises to be a lot of Wolfean fun and we hope to see you there.
To reserve your place, use the RESERVATION FORM.

New York hotels fill up early in December,
so, if you need hotel reservations,
we suggest you make them now.

See the EVENTS PAGE for further details.