“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The case is all boiling down to a strange taste of greed-and a grumpy gourmand’s unappeasable appetite for truth. In short order, Wolfe finds himself confronted by one of his most perplexing and pressing cases, involving a curious set of clues: a gray Cadillac, a mysterious woman, and a pair of earrings shaped like spiders dipped in gold. So why has he accepted a case for $4.30? And why have the last two people to hire him been ruthlessly murdered? Wolfe suspects the answers may lie in the story of a twelve-year-old boy who turns up at the door of his West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone. “Rex Stout & The Baker Street Irregulars (BSI)”.Nero Wolfe was almost as famous for his wealthy clients and extravagant fees as for his genius at detection.
Ed Price Collection of Rex Stout (MS2018-057). Sapp papers and Collection of Rex Stout (MS1996-022) Katherine Fox, Head, Public Services & Engagement Kathleen Monahan, Reference, Instruction & Digital Services Librarian We hope you will pleased with our efforts and, in true Nero Wolfe style, will deem them “Satisfactory!” If you can’t visit us in person, view highlights in the online, permanent exhibit. Researchers interested in using any of the Rex Stout collections (listed below) are welcome to visit anytime, but please be advised that original material in the exhibit is not available for research. To learn more about Rex Stout, please visit Golden Spiders and Black Orchids: A ‘Satisfactory’ Look at the Life and Writings of Rex Stout, on display until early 2020 in Burns Library. Some of the Wolfe Pack’s creative output can be found in the collections, alongside Stout’s personal, professional, and political writing and associated materials. Pack members continue to write and create art in homage to Stout’s characters and writing. Indeed, Stout’s characters have also inspired fan creativity and spawned a literary society – The Wolfe Pack. Stout’s papers document his ties with the BSIs, and include a eulogy published in The Baker Street Journal for the Buttons-cum-Commissionaire of the society, Edgar Smith.Īs Rex Stout’s devotion to Doyle indicates, characters can inspire generations of interpretations, criticism, and fandoms. 
A January 1959 certificate proclaims Stout “a recipient with the full honours of the Irregular Shilling and entitled to bear and display at all times the Titular Investiture of The Boscombe Valley Mystery is hereby designated an HONORARY LIFE MEMBER of the Society”. Rex Stout was an active member of the Baker Street Irregulars, the literary society dedicated to studying the world of Sherlock Holmes.
Minded literati to produce new scholarship. “The Case of the Politician”, Box 18, Folder 30, Rex Stout papers (MS1986-096)
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