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| So many fans with the fanaticism and skills to create so many sites. If I've missed anyone, please let me know. . . . The Web Master |
Social Networking/Chat/Discussion Sites |
Facebook pages:
The Wolfe Pack
Rex Stout Page
Nero Wolfe Page
Twitter:
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| The Nomkeepers Place The Wolfehounds, an E-mail List to discuss the Wolfe books and other Wolfe topics. This site also has the Wolfehounds' List Gems, as well as links and a bibliography with anthologies and alternative titles. Alternate link to the site: http://nav.to/beer. |
| A Yahoo Wolfe Discussion Group -- Be sure to check out the Photo Albums on this site. |
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Thrilling Detective The Nero Wolfe page of a fabulous site is worth a look. All mystery fans will find this site a joy. While you're there, stop by and visit McGee.
And here is a terrific Travis McGee site (well, I'm not the only Wolfe fanatic who is also a Trav fanatic!) |
SpeedyMystery -- featuring reviews & rankings of the Nero Wolfe Novella by Bob Schneider. Also see the ratings from Bob Schneider: http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/corpus/NeroWolfe-novella-rating-RDSchneider.pdf |
Why Nero Wolfe Never Ages from TomCat or Last Century Detective blog |
Caftan Woman's Classic Movie Blog features the media history of Nero Wolfe. |
Nero Wolfe Quotes Pages on "Dotted with Dots" Blog |
| Dave Patty's Wolfe Site of book cover scans, information about the Wolfe Internet mailing list, a listing of Books In Which Wolfe Leaves/Doesn't Leave Brownstone, and more. |
| Wolfe World -- Brian Bain's thoughts on some Wolfean phenomena. |
TRIVIA AND TREASURES FROM REX STOUT'S NERO WOLFE DETECTIVE STORIES by
H. M. O'Shaughnessy -- from the mother of Perri O'Shaugnessy (the pen-name for two people, Pamela and Mary O’Shaughnessy, sisters and authors of eleven bestselling Nina Reilly novels.) |
| CrimeStalkers Home of the CrimeStalkers Case Book series of short story collections from Rex Stout's Biographer, the late John McAleer, and Wolfe Pack guest speaker, Andrew McAleer. See the Stout pages for an array of articles on Mr. Stout. |
| Gazette of the Arts James Rock's Nero Wolfe Page of interesting links, chronological listing of Stout's works, as well as Wolfe-related books. Also see Rock Publishing. |
| An Advertisement for Nero Wolfe’s Services Does advertising his services on the Internet sound like something Mr. Wolfe would do? Well, Archie can be very persuasive. |
| Rex Stout & Nero Wolfe Suite 101 Mystery Genre site. Great article by Linda Kinkead. |
| The Brownstone Floor Plan Architectural drawings of the entire brownstone. A real treat! |
| Lots of Wolfe Quizzes (and even one on Tecumseh Fox) |
LET'S NOT FORGET THE INDIES
THE INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS AROUND THE COUNTRY AND ONLINE. THEY ARE SUCH A NECESSARY INGREDIENT IN ASSURING A WIDE SELECTION OF AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS. Check out these shopping alternatives: |
New York City's two remaining Independent Mystery Bookstores:
Mysterious Bookshop
Partners & Crime |
| Independent Online Booksellers Association |
| Independent Mystery Booksellers Association |
| Booksense—Independent Booksellers Locator |
| IOBABooks.com - Used Books, Rare Books, and Out-of-Print Books |
Mystery Sites
with a Wolfean Connection |
| Cozy-Mystery List gives a really full treatment of the Wolfe saga and LOTS of lists of Cozy (& Not So Cozy) Mystery Books and DVDs. |
| Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, in collaboration with The Wolfe Pack, sponsors Black Orchid Novella Award. |
| The Readers Room This potpourri for mystery readers reprints a truly great piece on Rex Stout's biographer and biography. This article by John McAleer was first published in The Gazette: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 1986. |
| Mysteries in Print |
| BooksnBytes Listing and review of Stout as well as the works of hundreds (thousands?) of authors in many genres. |
| StopYourKillingMe StopYourKillingMe. A resource for mystery lovers, listing over 3,400 authors, with chronological lists of their books (over 38,000 titles), both series (3,800+) and non-series. |
| Mystery Readers International is chuck full of information on authors, books, events, etc. |
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So many fans around the world
of the fabulous Nero Wolfe. |
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From Czechoslovakia:
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| Lutz-R ü diger Busse brings us The Gazette from Braunschweig Germany, with the emphasis on character development and the characters. It also has reviews. |
Another German site has Wolfe parody: "Cäsar Bär" (Bär= Bear) |
Swedish titles for Stout mysteries (Wolfe & non-Wolfe title), with English translation and publication date, are listed here.
In fact, the works of 125 classic mystery authors (includes their pseudonyms) are listed on this page. |
| NERO WOLFE & THE TOFF An unusual site with unusual cover art from Nero Wolfe books published in France prior to 1950. |
| Avenarius' Stout Site is newly revised, redesigned, and expanded. Don't miss this Slovakian site -- in perfect English. Stop here for a priceless collection of some of Stout's other works of genius -- full text of non-Wolfe writings (from the "pulp fiction" days) and of the "Watson was a Woman" speech, and the audio (MP3 format) of the full audio of the "Information, Please" radio quiz show on which Rex Stout was a guest. And LOTS of great links. Of course, Montenegro is not so very far from Slovakia. |
| Dragonov Brick Works -- Ronan Dragonov of Denmark has this wonderful Lego homage to the ultimate Legman -- Archie. |
| Abelard's Nero Wolfe Pages Extensive quotes and analysis of the psychology of the corpus. Very unusual site, purportedly from Mongolia, but possibly from Ireland. |
| From Finland, an extensive page about Stout. A biographical essay and bibliography with Finnish translations noted. |
| ANOTHER Finnish Site devoted to Wolfe Bibliography, translations of the Finnish publications of the books and their book covers. |
| A Japanese site about Rex Stout. Check out the line drawing of Stout! |
| An Italian Nero Wolfe site The Italian side of Nero Wolfe, including pictures from the TV series made for Italian television in 1969 featuring Italian actors (wolfe looks remarkably like (but NOT) Marcello Mastroianni), pictures of a NW comic strip, and other fascinating stuff. (Loads somewhat slowly, but worth the wait!.) |
| Fantastic Fiction -- A UK site with Stout's section featuring bibliographical listing, book cover art work, and short synopses. |
| A Dutch site of Stout's Bibliography |
| Czech Bibliography of Stout (in Czech) |
Wolfean Tidbits |
Birthplace |
| Montenegro About.com's Montenegro site including travel advisory, relief map, and other links. |
| Montenegro Smiles (Maybe the Dept. of Tourism can develop a tour that traces Nero & Archie's route from The Black Mountain.) |
| Official Montenegrin Tourist Site |
| Montenegro -- a sovereign and independent State. |
Orchids |
| Orchid Species -- beautiful and exhaustive |
| The American Orchid Society -- Orchid Web Lots of Orchid Information, a searchable database of magazine articles, and other links, too. |
| The Orchid House A truly exhaustive list of links relating to orchids, a pronunciation section (YES!), and lots of other good stuff. Slow to load, but worth the wait. |
Wolfe Mentions in Orchid Articles |
| DuBois, PA, Courier-Express, "Couple combine talents to display orchids," March 14, 2009" |
| Times Beacon Record (North Shore of Long Island) "Growing orchids: unique challenges," March 5, 2009 |
| San Francisco Chronicle, "Don't fall for that orchids-are-so-needy line," March 4, 2009 |
Beer |
| Cask-ale.co.uk Good information about both U.S. and U.K. cask-ales and hand-crafted beer. This site is loaded with information and well worth the visit. |
| RealBeer.Com The Beer Portal has over 150,000 pages about beer plus lots of beer and beer-related stuff for sale. |
| All About Beer OnLine The online site of the Beer Magazine is chuck full of beer information, links, and even beer stuff for sale. |
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| A Cooking Blog: "Inspired By Wolfe" |
From "Another Year in Recipes" -- Diane Darrow's Recipe Blog:
Lamb Shanks from The Nero Wolfe Cookbook and the joy of using and reading The Nero Wolfe Cookbook
Creole Fritters with Cheese Sauce |
| http://mouthfulsfood.com/forums//lofiversion/index.php/t1768.html |
| http://www.chowhound.com/topics/424521 (veal cutlet) |
| http://www.recipesource.com/ Search for Nero Wolfe for about 8 recipes |
| http://www.northcoastjournal.com/122707/food1227.html This blog post begins a discussion of a subject near and dear to Mr. Wolfe's heart: American cuisine. The writer opens his discussion, quite appropriately, with an extended quote from Wolfe himself, in Too Many Cooks. |
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