Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe

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If you’ve never read a Rex Stout Nero Wolfe story, you should.  You’d be in for a treat. 

Stout did something unique: he married the British Golden Age, puzzle-solving school of mystery fiction with the street-smart, hardboiled, thoroughly American detective novels of Chandler and Hammett to come up with a seamless blend of thought and action, narrated in a prose that was unfailingly literate, witty, and engaging.

Stout’s Nero Wolfe stories are entertaining with just the right mix of action, mystery and humor.  Neil Nyren (who I quoted above) provides an in-depth look at Stout and his stories at Crime Reads.  Check out Rex Stout: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics.