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Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe

Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created by the Rex Stout. Archie Goodwin, the narrator of the stories is his assistant. They made their debut in 1934 and appeared in 33 novels and 39 short stories from then until 1975. Most of them are set in New York City.

The Corpus

1934: Fer-de-Lance
1935: The League of Frightened Men
1936: The Rubber Band
1937: The Red Box
1938: Too Many Cooks
1939: Some Buried Caesar
1940: Over My Dead Body
1940: Where There's a Will
1942: Black Orchids
1944: Not Quite Dead Enough
1946: The Silent Speaker
1947: Too Many Women
1948: And Be a Villain (British title More Deaths Than One)
1949: Trouble in Triplicate
1949: The Second Confession
1950: Three Doors to Death
1950: In the Best Families (British title Even in the Best Families)
1951: Curtains for Three
1951: Murder by the Book
1952: Triple Jeopardy
1952: Prisoner's Base (British title Out Goes She)
1953: The Golden Spiders
1954: Three Men Out
1954: The Black Mountain
1955: Before Midnight
1956: Three Witnesses
1956: Might as Well Be Dead
1957: Three for the Chair
1957: If Death Ever Slept
1958: And Four to Go
1958: Champagne for One
1959: Plot It Yourself (British title Murder in Style)
1960: Three at Wolfe's Door
1960: Too Many Clients
1961: The Final Deduction
1962: Homicide Trinity
1962: Gambit
1963: The Mother Hunt
1964: Trio for Blunt Instruments
1964: A Right to Die
1965: The Doorbell Rang
1966: Death of a Doxy
1968: The Father Hunt
1969: Death of a Dude
1973: Please Pass the Guilt
1975: A Family Affair
1985: Death Times Three
(posthumous)