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Fan Sites
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 (fanatic and somewhat skillful)
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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!)

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.
Merely a Genius.  An annotated bibliography of the Nero Wolfe book series and interesting quotes -- coming soon to the Wolfe Pack Site!

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.
Take Action against the cancellation of the A&E Series. Wolfe may be able to wait for people and things to come to him but we have to take some action.
Muffy's Nero Wolfe Site.  Information on the series, food, orchids, and more.
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.
Nero Wolfe TV Series.  Cal Westray's site has many links and a lot of information about the T. V. Series.
Wolfe World. Brian Bain's site of interesting analysis and Wolfean goodies.
NERO WOLFE & THE TOFF. An unusual site with unusual cover art from Nero Wolfe books published in France prior to 1950.
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, has announced the second annual 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. A resource for mystery lovers, listing over 2,400 authors, with chronological lists of their books (over 27,000 titles), both series (2,700+) and non-series.
Mystery Readers International is chuck full of information on authors, books, events, etc.
Overseas Fan Sites
So many fans around the world
of the fabulous Nero Wolfe.
The first Russian website devoted to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin and Rex Stout is at http://nerowolfe.ru/. It even has a page with information about The Wolfe Pack.

Thank you Stanislav (aka Chuchundrovich), webmaster

From Czechoslovakia:

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)

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 titles and book covers of Finish translations galore.
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).
Chat/Discussion Sites
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.

The Biography Channel Nero Wolfe Discussion Board -- Same corporation, different network & board

Yahoo Discussion Group -- A place of Books (especially Wolfe), Words and Wit
A Yahoo Wolfe Discussion Group -- Be sure to check out the Photo Albums on this site.

Wolfean "Fixtures"

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.
Wolfe Recipes & Food
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.
Information about or Commentary on
the Life or Works of Rex Stout
The Kansas State Historical Society pays tribute to the (almost) native son.
A comprehensive biographical summary of Rex Stout and his various careers.
Article: Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe by Linda Kinkead at Suite 101.
Wikepedia's (The Free Encyclopedia) Rex Stout Article.
Rex Stout's ten favorite mysteries (chosen between 1938 and 1947).
Ex Libris provides a Rex Stout biographical sketch and reviews of many of the Wolfe books.
Dick Lochte writes about an interview he did with Rex Stout.
Stout Critique – The Van Dine School. The not-too-complimentary Classic Mystery page on Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe.
Stout Bibliography. This mystery bibliography page features all of Stout's books including Theodolinda "Dol" Bonner, Tecumseh Fox and Alphabet Hicks.
A Stout Fellow. On this British site, David Langford reprises the series through some Nero Wolfe reissues.  The article first appeared in Million magazine 1992.

TV Series

IMDB's site has a lot of information added by various fans.

        ALso see their FAQ page regarding the infamous MISSING MINUTES and CHOPPED PICTURE (where did the Letter Box film go?)

See FLICKR for screen captures of some of the overseas version's Missing Minutes scenes
Immune to Murder -- 90-minute International Version, with Russian voice-over translatioin
A Fan's depiction of THE CHOPPED PICTURE (or, where did the Letter Box film go?)
Chris Grady's Pictograph of the Wolfe Pack's trip to Toronto to the shooting of the A&E Nero Wolfe Series.
Nero Wolfe TV Series -- 2001-2002. TV.com's archival data about the A&E Series.
Episode Guide-2001. The 2001-2002 series starring Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin.
Nero Wolfe TV Series-1981. TV.com's archival data about the series starring William Conrad.
Episode Guide -- Nero Wolfe TV Series 2001-2002. The 2001-2002 series starring Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin.
Episode Guide -- Nero Wolfe TV Series 1981. The 1981 series starring William Conrad as Nero Wolfe and Lee Horsley as Archie Goodwin.
The Italian Nero Wolfe TV Series. 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). Loads somewhat slowly, but worth the wait!

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