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* The stories insist that Wolfe conducts no business outside the brownstone, but in fact this rule is frequently violated. At times, Wolfe and Archie are on a personal errand when a murder occurs, and legal authorities require that they remain in the vicinity (''[[Too Many Cooks]]'', ''[[Some Buried Caesar]]'', [[Three for the Chair|"Too Many Detectives"]] and [[Three for the Chair#Immune to Murder|"Immune to Murder"]], for example). In other instances, the requirements of the case force Wolfe from his house (''[[In the Best Families]]'', ''[[The Second Confession]]'', ''[[The Doorbell Rang]]'', ''[[Plot It Yourself]]'', ''[[The Silent Speaker]]''). Although he occasionally ventures by car into the suburbs of New York City, he is loath to travel, and clutches the safety strap continually on the rare occasions when Archie drives him somewhere.
* Wolfe maintains a rigid schedule in the brownstone. After breakfast in his bedroom while wearing yellow silk pajamas, he is with Horstmann in the plant rooms from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Lunch is usually at 1:15 p.m. He returns to the plant rooms from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Dinner is generally at 7:15 or 7:30 p.m. The remaining hours, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., and after dinner, are available for business, or for reading if there is no pressing business on hand (by Archie's lights, sometime even if there is). Sunday's schedule is more relaxed.
* Wolfe drinks copious amounts of beer, starting after returning to his office from the plant rooms at 11 a.m., and not ending until bedtime. He carefully collects the bottle caps to track his consumption. In the first book, ''[[Fer-de-Lance (book)|Fer-de-Lance]]'', his daily consumption is said to be six quarts but that he was considering cutting it back to five quarts. With 32 fluid ounces per quart, this means he was contemplating reducing his consumption from 16 bottles per day to approximately 13.
* Wolfe has stated, apparently with a straight face, that "music is the last vestige of barbarism."
* In the course of the stories, Wolfe displays a pronounced, almost pathological, dislike for the company of women. Although some readers interpret this attitude as simple [[misogyny]], various details in the stories, particularly the early ones, suggest it has more to do with an unfortunate encounter in early life with a ''[[femme fatale]]''. He not so much dislikes women as their perceived frailties, especially a woman having hysterics — to which he thinks every woman is prone for little or no reason. In an early Wolfe novel ''[[Over My Dead Body (novel)|Over My Dead Body]]'', we learn that he has an adopted daughter, who subsequently plays an important role in the 1954 novel ''[[The Black Mountain]]''. It is also noted early in the first Wolfe novel that there is a gong under Archie's bed that will ring upon any intrusion into or near Wolfe's own bedroom: "Wolfe told me once... that he really had no cowardice in him, he only had an intense distaste for being touched by anyone...."
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A year later, Paramount produced the short-lived ''Nero Wolfe,'' a weekly series that ran for the first six months of 1981 on NBC TV. [[William Conrad]] played a bearded Wolfe and [[Lee Horsley]] played Goodwin, in a production that departed considerably from the Stout originals. The episodes were set in present-day New York City.
====''[[A Nero Wolfe Mystery]]'' (A&E Network)====
[[Image:Hutton-TDR-2.jpg|right|thumb|400px|[[Timothy Hutton]] as Archie Goodwin in ''[[A Nero Wolfe Mystery]]''<!-- FAIR USE of Hutton-TDR-2.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hutton-TDR-2.jpg for rationale -->]]
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A series of [http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0368157/ Russian Wolfe TV movies] were made in 2001-2002. The teleplay was written by Vladimir Valutsky, who had previously written the Russian Sherlock Holmes TV series (around 1980). Nero Wolfe is played by Donatas Banionis and Archie Goodwin by Sergei Zhigunov.
==Wolfeian aphorisms==
*"Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear."
*Client to Wolfe: "You're an incredible man.... Is there ''anything'' you couldn't do?" "Yes, madam.... There is. I couldn't put sense in a fool's brain."
==Wolfeian sayings==
*"Pfui!"
*"Are you a dunce?!"
*"Are you a donkey?!"
*"Is it flummery?"
*"Satisfactory"
*"Confound it!"
==External links==
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==Notes==
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[[Category:Fictional private investigators|Wolfe, Nero]]
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