Nero Wolfe?

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Wolfe rocks.

Actually (to the extent he can be induced to move at all) he rolls...
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Dennis

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Actually (to the extent he can be induced to move at all) he rolls...
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Dennis

I need someone like Archie to do my walking for me!

[tomereader]

Yes, I've always liked the series although I had trouble finding a nice clean printable list of the books in order (without comments or other stuff) so I cobbled one together from multiple sources:

https://docs.google.com/document/edi...FQ3gngA8&hl=en

I even read the Robert Goldsborough pastiches to satisfy my NW cravings

http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/corpus/...ough/index.htm

When I read that one of the first search tools for the internet was named Archie it seemed appropriate and a fitting reward for the voice of the series...

I always liked the stories where Wolfe had to leave the brownstone and fight the perils of meeting people (or worse for him: women) riding in strange automobiles even those not driven by Archie! (oh noes) Three Men Out, Wolfe at a baseball game, Die Like A Dog where Wolfe gets the brownstones first pet Jet the black Labrador retriever

Some NW's are better than others I guess my other favorites would be the ones where Archie gets off some _really_ cutting remarks....

and then there is the food I have always wondered what the meals there at the brownstone would have tasted like

one of my favorite NW reads is the Nero Wolfe Cookbook with its snippets of dialogue and the meals served, and the recipes...

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I need someone like Archie to do my walking for me!

You weigh a seventh of a ton and have a specially built chair in your office?
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Dennis

[capidamonte]

It's all relative. That's 285 pounds -- I've known several people who've weighed more than that. To my modern perception, that doesn't seem obese (although it generally is.) Nowadays, to get the same effect, I think you'd have to shoot for something over 350 -- ie: something more than 1/6 of a ton.

Wolfe was created pre-Twinkie after all.

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by tomereader

Yes, I've always liked the series although I had trouble finding a nice clean printable list of the books in order (without comments or other stuff) so I cobbled one together from multiple sources:

https://docs.google.com/document/edi...FQ3gngA8&hl=en

Have you tried here?

www.fantasticfiction.com

Books are listed by author, and in chronological order, with date. A great site.

[desertgrandma]

See? Just copy and paste....

Series
Nero Wolfe
Fer-De-Lance (1934)
aka Meet Nero Wolfe
The League of Frightened Men (1935)
The Rubber Band (1936)
aka To Kill Again
The Red Box (1937)
aka Case of the Red Box
Too Many Cooks (1938)
Over My Dead Body (1939)
Some Buried Caesar (1939)
aka The Red Bull
Where There's a Will (1940)
Black Orchids (1942)
Not Quite Dead Enough (1944)
The Silent Speaker (1946)
Too Many Women (1947)
And Be a Villain (1948)
aka More Deaths Than One
The Second Confession (1949)
Trouble in Triplicate (1949)
Curtains for Three (1950)
Even in the Best Families (1950)
aka In the Best Families
Three Doors to Death (1950)
aka Door to Death
Murder By the Book (1951)
Prisoner's Base (1952)
aka Out She Goes
Triple Jeopardy (1952)
The Golden Spiders (1953)
The Black Mountain (1954)
Three Men Out (1954)
Before Midnight (1955)
Might As Well Be Dead (1956)
Three Witnesses (1956)
If Death Ever Slept (1957)
Three for the Chair (1957)
And Four to Go (1958)
aka Crime And Again
Champagne for One (1958)
Plot It Yourself (1959)
aka Murder in Style
Too Many Clients (1960)
The Final Deduction (1961)
Gambit (1962)
Homicide Trinity (1962)
The Mother Hunt (1963)
A Right to Die (1964)
Trio for Blunt Instruments (1964)
The Doorbell Rang (1965)
Death of a Doxy (1966)
The Father Hunt (1968)
Death of a Dude (1969)
Please Pass the Guilt (1973)
A Family Affair (1975)
Death Times Three (1985)

[tomereader]

my list was neater

and I needed the numbering to keep my place especially if I kept the font small to fit the list on one page and I am using the magnifying glass

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by capidamonte

It's all relative. That's 285 pounds -- I've known several people who've weighed more than that. To my modern perception, that doesn't seem obese (although it generally is.) Nowadays, to get the same effect, I think you'd have to shoot for something over 350 -- ie: something more than 1/6 of a ton.

Wolfe was created pre-Twinkie after all.

<chuckle> I know people who weigh a lot more than that, but as someone else commented, they "put the morbid into 'morbidly obese'". On the other hand, there are pro US football players who weigh 350lbs and aren't fat at all. It is all relative.

An old friend who is a Wolfe fan once suggested that Wolfe's weight was a deliberate defense mechanism, because in his younger, slimmer days, a woman tried to poison him. His increased body mass is a partial defense against a repeat, as is his desire to stay as far away from women as possible.

(I am not familiar enough with the texts to say one way or the other whether that theory holds water.)
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Dennis

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

You weigh a seventh of a ton and have a specially built chair in your office?
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Dennis

Unfortunately, a bit over a seventh of a ton, but I get around well.

I weigh considerably less in the pool!

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by tomereader

my list was neater

and I needed the numbering to keep my place especially if I kept the font small to fit the list on one page and I am using the magnifying glass

Okay....after cutting and pasting, I could have inserted numbers or whatever I wanted.....also, many of fanfic's listings are numbered.

It was just an alternative for you.