Nero Wolfe, author Rex Stout's literary take on eccentric private eyes, starts a new TV life Sunday as the hero of a regular weekly series on A&E. He didn't just stumble into it. The ratings and ...

Without a doubt, my favorite author is Rex Stout. In my earlier years, I was captivated by reading the thrilling adventures written by Samuel Shellabarger, Van Wyck Mason and Frank Yerby. One day, I ...

Last year marked the 80th anniversary of “Fer-de-Lance,” the late Rex Stout’s mystery that introduced Nero Wolfe, corpulent gourmand, orchid breeder and New York brownstone-dwelling detective. Stout ...

IN 40 YEARS as Manhattan’s preeminent private detective, he went to only one crime scene, usually preferring to stay home. Not that Nero Wolfe liked to work from home. He hated detective work, ...

Robert Goldsborough, read by Peter Berkrot. Dreamscape Media, unabridged, 6 CDs, 6.5 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-5200-3497-3 The latest of Goldsborough’s add-ons to the late Rex Stout’s chronicles of ...

Rex Stout, read by Michael Prichard. AudioGO, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-431-1 Michael Prichard has been narrating Stout’s classic mysteries for more than 17 years, and his ...

A corpulent cultivator of orchids, a curt conversationalist and a virtual shut-in, the worldly private detective "Nero Wolfe" (8 p.m. Sunday, A&E, TV-PG) may seem like an odd choice for a TV hero. The ...

Robert Goldsborough`s mother introduced him to Nero Wolfe at an early and impressionable age. ”I was 12 or 13,” he recalls, ”and I was complaining because I was home sick and had nothing to do.” A fan ...

Timothy Hutton has what you could call a Jack Lemmon-ish face, one of those faces made perpetually youthful by a smile and a way of arching the eyebrows that turns troubled to sunny in a split second.