Rex Stout: Meet the Legendary Mystery Author Who Created Nero Wolfe

From Murder & Mayhem: 

Rex Stout's celebrated sleuth Nero Wolfe looms large in the annals of mystery fiction. This April sees the publication of The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe, a collection of two dozen pastiches and literary tributes to one of crime fiction’s most beloved sleuths, Nero Wolfe. 

First introduced in 1934 by author Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe—the rotund armchair detective who loathed leaving his luxurious New York City brownstone, even to work on a case—became a hit over the course of more than 30 novels and dozens of novellas and short stories written during Stout’s lifetime, not to mention countless more written by other voices after the mystery great passed on.

But who was Rex Stout, and how did his creation inspire such enduring affection for so many years?

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