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Social Networking/Chat/Discussion Sites

Facebook pages:
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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.
Fan Sites

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!)

NEWSpeedyMystery -- 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
NEWWhy Nero Wolfe Never Ages from TomCat or Last Century Detective blog
NEWCaftan Woman's Classic Movie Blog features the media history of Nero Wolfe.
NEWNero 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.
Overseas Fan Sites
So many fans around the world
of the fabulous Nero Wolfe.
The first Russian web site 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)

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.
Wolfe Recipes & Food
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.
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.
Wikipedia'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.
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?)

Nero Wolfe TV Series icons
See FLICKR for screen captures of some of the overseas version's Missing Minutes scenes
Pfui Photostream on Flickr! -- 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.
Dick Lochte writes about an interview with Rex Stout, in which Mr. Stout talked about casting for his books and the two movies made in the 1930s.
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!
Nero Wolfe on You Tube
Below is a representative listing.
Search for "Nero Wolfe" to find current links to dozens and dozens of clips.
Lon Cohen interviews Lily Rowan (from Bouchercon Mystery Convention, 2009): http://www.youtube.com/janecleland#p/u/0/5fXiOV-oiTU
For William Conrad fans:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgkukSvQtgA
In the “What I am Reading” section: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azlH9zh59Dk
This skit from Rancor Productions is hilarious and especially captivating -- having been done by a generation that Stout would have embraced for the future -- high school sophomores:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpfnc47dgRA (some of the photos of real people are from the Italian TV Series)
A number of clips from the A&E Series and some of the Nero Wolfe Radio shows with accompanying Woflean-themed slide show are also available: search www.youtube.com for "Nero Wolfe"!
This is my favorite YouTube video: You have to read the subtitles, but it's worth it . . . (it's in Norwegian): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBIVRwvUeE
 
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