{"id":32718,"date":"2023-04-25T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32718"},"modified":"2023-04-21T14:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:25:35","slug":"rex-stouts-nero-wolfe-archie-goodwin-an-overview-by-david-bordwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32718","title":{"rendered":"Rex Stout&#8217;s Nero Wolfe &#038; Archie Goodwin: An Overview by David Bordwell!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z042523nerowolfe_overview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David Bordwell at CrimeReads has written an excellent overview of Rex Stout and his long-running detective\/mystery series featuring Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wolfe was a 285 pound genius who leaves his brownstone home only in the most extreme emergencies.\u00a0 He &#8220;breeds orchids, reads, drinks vast quantities of beer, and dines on meals of rare delicacy.&#8221;\u00a0 To support his life&#8217;s luxuries, Wolfe works as a private detective.\u00a0 Since he detests venturing away from his sanctum, Archie Goodwin serves as Wolfe&#8217;s assistant. &#8220;Slender and strong, reasonably handsome, Archie is attractive to and attracted by women of many ages&#8230; Archie fetches clients, witnesses, and suspects to meetings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am a, pardon the pun, huge fan of Nero Wolfe mysteries. If you are as well, check out David Bordwell&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/crimereads.com\/on-the-creation-of-nero-wolfe-and-archie-goodwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;HOLMES AND WATSON IN MANHATTAN&#8221;: MUSINGS ON THE CREATION OF NERO WOLFE AND ARCHIE GOODWIN.<\/a>\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not a fan, give the piece a look as well.\u00a0 You might become one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Bordwell at CrimeReads has written an excellent overview of Rex Stout and his long-running detective\/mystery series featuring Nero Wolfe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32719,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32718\/revisions\/32719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}