Rex Stout Corner

[Stompin at the Savoy]

Rex Stout works a bit like P. G. Wodehouse: very useful to have around to self-prescribe as a palliative for the blues.  A roommate of a girlfriend I had in grad school recommended Rex Stout and I immediately picked up a used copy of Some Buried Caesar at a used book shop.  Over the years I acquired many more volumes and read some from the library.  Decades ago I came across an ebay listing for all of the Nero Wolfe series in various paperbacks at a surprisingly low price and bought it.  Since then I have re-read the series (plus his other series and one offs) in sequence a few times.  As my vision deteriorated I acquired the Wolfe series again on kindle.  I recommend Rex Stout!  There was quite a good video dramatization with Timothy Hutton and Maury Chaykin but nothing beats the books.

[Rabshakeh]

Good suggestion. God knows with the weather this side of the Atlantic at the moment we need that palliative. 

[jazzbo]

I'm a big Stout fan, read all the Wolfe's when I was in my twenties, my youngest brother got me started on it as he told me that he thought I was a lot like Archie Goodwin (and there are similarities--I too was born in Canton, and my favorite drink is milk--my brother thought I was like Archie with the ladies too, but I don't see that). I like the Tecumsah Fox books too--a nice re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes I think. And I love a novel he wrote in the second person called "How Like a God." What a fascinating person Stout must have been to be around.