Born John William Cann, Jr. on September 27, 1920 in Louisville, Kentucky, it seems that Conrad was destined to be a performer: His parents owned and operated a cinema in Lexington, Kentucky, so there ...

Nero Wolfe is a television series based on the characters in Rex Stout's classic series of detective stories that aired January 16 – August 25, 1981, on NBC. William Conrad fills the role of the ...

Murder is a tragedy, except when it’s an art form fit for the pages of a pulp novel, the wide screen or for television, as in Sunday night’s Nero Wolfe mystery (8 p.m., A&E;). In this case, murder is ...

There’s something refreshing about television finding a place for Nero Wolfe. The corpulent detective created by the late Rex Stout might have once been a man for his time. However, his time is ...

Rex Stout wrote 73 Nero Wolfe mysteries, each a music box or clockwork orange, a closed-time-table tick-tock mini-world, like the great detective’s famous brownstone on West 35th Street in Manhattan, ...