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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Detective novel</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%; font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">Fer-de-Lance <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Fer-de-Lance&rft.author=%5B%5BRex+Stout%5D%5D&rft.date=October+24%2C+%5B%5B1934+in+literature%7C1934%5D%5D&rft.pub=%5B%5BFarrar+%26+Rinehart%5D%5D&rft.place=%5B%5BUnited+States%5D%5D&rft.pages=313+pp.+%28first+edition%29&rft.series=%5B%5BNero+Wolfe%5D%5D&rft_id=info:oclcnum/156155600"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stout-FDL-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The first-edition dust jacket. A painting of a voluptuous pink orchid casts an ominous black shadow on a gold background. The torso and head of a large seated man is in silhouette. Hand-lettered type identifies the book as "Fer-de-Lance, A Nero Wolfe Mystery by Rex Stout.""><img alt="The first-edition dust jacket. A painting of a voluptuous pink orchid casts an ominous black shadow on a gold background. The torso and head of a large seated man is in silhouette. Hand-lettered type identifies the book as "Fer-de-Lance, A Nero Wolfe Mystery by Rex Stout."" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Stout-FDL-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="260" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="260" data-file-height="260" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rex_Stout" title="Rex Stout">Rex Stout</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Series</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe" title="Nero Wolfe">Nero Wolfe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">Detective fiction</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Farrar_%26_Rinehart" title="Farrar & Rinehart">Farrar & Rinehart</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">October 24, <a href="/wiki/1934_in_literature" title="1934 in literature">1934</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (<a href="/wiki/Hardcover" title="Hardcover">Hardcover</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">313 pp. (first edition)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156155600">156155600</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_League_of_Frightened_Men" title="The League of Frightened Men">The League of Frightened Men</a> </i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Fer-de-Lance</b></i> is the first <a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe" title="Nero Wolfe">Nero Wolfe</a> <a href="/wiki/Detective_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Detective novel">detective novel</a> written by <a href="/wiki/Rex_Stout" title="Rex Stout">Rex Stout</a>, published in 1934 by <a href="/wiki/Farrar_%26_Rinehart" title="Farrar & Rinehart">Farrar & Rinehart</a>, Inc. The novel appeared in abridged form in <i><a href="/wiki/The_American_Magazine" title="The American Magazine">The American Magazine</a></i> (November 1934) under the title "Point of Death". The novel was adapted for the 1936 film <i><a href="/wiki/Meet_Nero_Wolfe" title="Meet Nero Wolfe">Meet Nero Wolfe</a></i>, and it was named after a <a href="/wiki/Bothrops" title="Bothrops">venomous snake with the same name</a>. In his seminal 1941 work, <i>Murder for Pleasure</i>, crime fiction historian <a href="/wiki/Howard_Haycraft" title="Howard Haycraft">Howard Haycraft</a> included <i>Fer-de-Lance</i> in his definitive list of the most influential works of mystery fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_introduction">Plot introduction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fer-de-Lance_(novel)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot introduction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-ad.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-ad.jpg/260px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-ad.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="629" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-ad.jpg/390px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-ad.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-ad.jpg/520px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-ad.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1550" data-file-height="3750" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>In the opening chapter, Wolfe decides to give up drinking bootleg beer and sends Fritz to purchase samples of every legally available brand (49 in all) so he can select a replacement. The date set in the novel is given as June 7, Wednesday, which makes the year 1933. The <a href="/wiki/Cullen%E2%80%93Harrison_Act" title="Cullen–Harrison Act">Cullen–Harrison Act</a> had just become law on April 7, 1933, legalising "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume), a point mentioned in passing in the novel. </p><p>As Wolfe samples the beers and is surprised to find that none of them are unpalatable, Fred Durkin arrives and asks sheepishly if Wolfe can speak with Maria Maffei, a friend of his wife. Maria's brother Carlo, a metalworker, was unemployed (it was during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>) and was supposed to return to Italy. He suddenly seemed to come into money, and then disappeared mysteriously. Impressed by Maria Maffei, Wolfe instructs Goodwin to make enquiries. Wolfe and Goodwin soon learn that Carlo's disappearance somehow involves the death of a college president while playing golf in <a href="/wiki/Westchester_County,_New_York" title="Westchester County, New York">Westchester County, New York</a>. </p><p>As the first novel in the series, <i>Fer-de-Lance</i> introduces <a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe" title="Nero Wolfe">Nero Wolfe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archie_Goodwin_(character)" title="Archie Goodwin (character)">Archie Goodwin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe_supporting_characters#Fritz_Brenner" title="Nero Wolfe supporting characters">Fritz Brenner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe_supporting_characters#Saul_Panzer" title="Nero Wolfe supporting characters">Saul Panzer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe_supporting_characters#Fred_Durkin" title="Nero Wolfe supporting characters">Fred Durkin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe_supporting_characters#Orrie_Cather" title="Nero Wolfe supporting characters">Orrie Cather</a> and other characters who recur throughout the entire corpus. Although the characters are not as fully developed as they would become later in the series, the essential characteristics of Wolfe, Archie and several other regulars already are clearly present. </p><p>However, there are some inconsistencies with the characters and settings that would be used thereafter. In particular, the novel's descriptions of Wolfe's Manhattan brownstone conflict with the established architecture set down by Stout in all subsequent novels and stories. Likewise, the characters have slightly different personalities: Wolfe's manner of speaking is notably more baroque and long-winded than in later stories, and Archie is generally coarser and less polished in this work than in later Stout volumes, even using racial epithets at times. Finally, Orrie Cather is introduced in <i>Fer-de-Lance</i> as a crusty old veteran detective, who smokes cigars; in all future Stout works, he would be a younger, self-confident ladies' man with no cigar-smoking habit. </p><p>The story's title is the common name of <i><a href="/wiki/Bothrops_atrox" title="Bothrops atrox">Bothrops atrox</a></i>, a venomous South American snake.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fer-de-lance" class="extiw" title="wikt:fer-de-lance">Fer-de-Lance</a> is French for spearhead, literally <i>iron of the lance</i>. </p><p>In <i>Fer-de-Lance,</i> Stout reused a key plot point relating to the murder weapon that he had used in his early mystery <i>The Last Drive</i>, which was serialized in <i>Golfers Magazine</i> in 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This story had been forgotten for many years—it is not mentioned in Stout's biography or in bibliographies of his works—until it was rediscovered in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_summary">Plot summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fer-de-Lance_(novel)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A watercolor illustration depicts two men standing behind a desk. Their eyes are intent upon the center drawer. The desk chair is overturned. The larger of the two men holds a brown bottle aloft in his right hand, preparing to strike downward. A younger, slender man leans backward warily, and extends a curved walking stick toward the desk drawer." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance.jpg/300px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="269" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance.jpg/450px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance.jpg/600px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3630" data-file-height="3250" /></a><figcaption>Illustrator <a href="/wiki/Fred_Ludekens" title="Fred Ludekens">Fred Ludekens</a> created the first visual interpretation of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin for the abridged version of <i>Fer-de-Lance</i> that appeared in <i>The American Magazine</i> (November 1934)</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Archie, you have heard me say that I am an actor. I am afraid I have a weakness for dramatic statement. It would be foolish not to indulge it when a good opportunity is offered. There is death in this room.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Nero Wolfe in <i>Fer-de-Lance</i>, chapter 15</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Maria Maffei, a family friend of one of Wolfe's free-lance men, offers to hire Wolfe to locate her missing brother Carlo, a metalworker. Wolfe, affected by the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Depression</a>, decides to take the job, although it is unappealing to him. Archie locates Anna Fiore, a girl who listened in on a phone call Carlo received at his boarding-house shortly before his disappearance. Wolfe learns from her that Carlo had clipped a story from a copy of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> about the sudden death (apparently by stroke) of Peter Oliver Barstow, president of Holland College. However, Anna refuses to provide any further details about Carlo, who is soon found dead in the countryside, stabbed in the back. </p><p>From reading the account of Barstow's death, which occurred during a round of golf, Wolfe conjectures that one of his clubs may have been altered to fire a poisoned needle into his belly. An autopsy proves Wolfe right, and he and Archie begin to concentrate on the Barstow family and their acquaintances, E.D. Kimball and his son Manuel, who had both been part of the golf foursome. While trying to figure out the whereabouts of Barstow's golf bag, Archie learns from the group's caddies that he had borrowed a driver from E.D. during the round. This fact, coupled with E.D.'s accounts of his past in <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>, leads Wolfe and Archie to conclude that Manuel had intended to kill his father, not Barstow, in revenge for the death of his mother years earlier. Archie confirms Manuel's movements on the day Carlo was killed, making him a suspect in that murder as well. Manuel retaliates by having an associate plant a deadly <i><a href="/wiki/Bothrops_atrox" title="Bothrops atrox">Bothrops atrox</a></i> viper in Wolfe's desk drawer, but Wolfe and Archie find and kill it. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 240px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 238px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-2.jpg/357px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="238" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-2.jpg/536px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-2.jpg/714px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2900" data-file-height="1950" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 240px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 238px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-3.jpg/357px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-3.jpg" decoding="async" width="238" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-3.jpg/536px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-3.jpg/714px-Wolfe-Fer-de-Lance-3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2900" data-file-height="1950" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"></div> </li> </ul> <p>With Maria's cooperation, Wolfe and Archie arrange a robbery in the countryside to scare Anna into telling what she knows. The trick works, and she hands over documents proving that Manuel hired Carlo to build the driver that killed Barstow. With the Kimball estate staked out, and a copy of the evidence delivered to Manuel, Archie leads the local police in so they can make an arrest. They learn that Manuel, an avid pilot, has taken E.D. up for a flight, and are shocked when the plane suddenly nose-dives into the ground; the impact kills both of them. </p><p>Wolfe collects both the $50,000 reward that Barstow's widow had offered for the capture of his killer, and another $10,000 from a <a href="/wiki/District_attorney" title="District attorney">district attorney</a> who had been skeptical of the murder theory. Wolfe comments that the climax of the case gave both E.D. and Manuel a chance to end their lives without any sense of bitterness or despair, but Archie notes that it has also kept Wolfe from having to leave his comfortable house in order to testify at a murder trial. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_unfamiliar_word">The unfamiliar word</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fer-de-Lance_(novel)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The unfamiliar word"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Like all of us, Wolfe has his favorite words, phrases, and sayings," wrote <a href="/wiki/William_S._Baring-Gould" title="William S. Baring-Gould">William S. Baring-Gould</a>. "Among the words, many are unusual and some are abstruse."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Nero Wolfe talks in a way that no human being on the face of the earth has ever spoken, with the possible exception of Rex Stout after he had a gin and tonic," said <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jaffe" title="Michael Jaffe">Michael Jaffe</a>, executive producer of the A&E TV series, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Nero_Wolfe_Mystery" class="mw-redirect" title="A Nero Wolfe Mystery">A Nero Wolfe Mystery</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Examples of unfamiliar words — or unfamiliar uses of words that some would otherwise consider familiar — are found throughout the corpus, often in the give-and-take between Wolfe and Archie. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Myrmidons" title="Myrmidons">Myrmidon</a>, chapter 13. While on his way to see D.A. Anderson in White Plains, Archie remarks, "And here was I ... headed for a revelation to the District Attorney that would probably result in my having the pleasure of meeting H.R. Corbett or some other flat-footed myrmidon in the anteroom of E. D. Kimball's office — and wouldn't that have been nice?"<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast_of_characters">Cast of characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fer-de-Lance_(novel)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cast of characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe" title="Nero Wolfe">Nero Wolfe</a> — The private investigator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archie_Goodwin_(character)" title="Archie Goodwin (character)">Archie Goodwin</a> — Wolfe's assistant, and the narrator of all Wolfe stories</li> <li>Carlo Maffei — Italian-American metalworker whose disappearance forces Wolfe to begin working</li> <li>Maria Maffei — Sister of Carlo Maffei and friend of Fred Durkin's wife</li> <li>Peter Oliver Barstow — President of Holland University (fictional), whose bizarre death on a golf course is the key to the mystery</li> <li>Lawrence Barstow — Peter Barstow's son, who was with him when he died</li> <li>Ellen Barstow — Widow of Peter Barstow</li> <li>Sarah Barstow — Peter Barstow's daughter who graduated from <a href="/wiki/Smith_College" title="Smith College">Smith College</a></li> <li>E.D. Kimball — Grain broker who was one of the foursome when Barstow died</li> <li>Manuel Kimball — E.D. Kimball's son who was also one of the foursome, and also an aviator</li> <li>Dr. Nathaniel Bradford — Family physician of the Barstows and friend of Peter since childhood</li> <li>Anna Fiore — Cleaning girl at Carlo Maffei's boarding house</li> <li>Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin, Orrie Cather and Bill Gore — Freelance detectives employed by Wolfe</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reviews_and_commentary">Reviews and commentary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fer-de-Lance_(novel)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Reviews and commentary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Isaac Anderson, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" title="The New York Times Book Review">The New York Times Book Review</a></i> — Several times in the course of this story Nero Wolfe is called a genius. The term is painfully inadequate, but it is the best that the dictionary offers ... The only thing that he does not know at the very beginning is the identity of the murderer. That he is to learn later, and the method he chooses for revealing his knowledge to the authorities provides a sensational concluding chapter for a story that abounds in surprises. Nero Wolfe is so fat that locomotion is next to impossible for him. For his fact-finding he depends upon his secretary, Archie, and it is the latter who tells the tale. The author has done a clever bit of work in making the narrative style employed by Archie correspond so exactly to his character and attainments as they are revealed in little touches here and there throughout the book.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Barzun" title="Jacques Barzun">Jacques Barzun</a> and Wendell Hertig Taylor, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Catalogue_of_Crime" title="A Catalogue of Crime">A Catalogue of Crime</a></i> — The first and longest of the Nero Wolfe stories, in which all the familiar characters and their habits get established. The murder is done by means of a golf club—the implement, not the membership—and it entangles a college president, a baby, some Italian nondescripts, and much philosophizing by Wolfe and futilizing by the police.<sup id="cite_ref-COC_2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-COC_2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Frederick Isaac, <i>In the Beginning: First Novels in Mystery Series</i> — Rex Stout's <i>Fer-de-Lance</i>, then, may be said to have heralded the beginning of several eras. It was, first and foremost, the opening of one of America's best detective series, introducing Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin and their world to generations of readers. Second, Archie's presence raises serious questions about the possible roles that the detective's assistant could and should play in the investigative process, some of which remain open even today. ... Third, Wolfe and Archie began to redefine the relationship between the two traditions of the Great Detective and the hard-boiled sleuth. ... By identifying both of these strands and personifying them in Wolfe and Archie, Stout challenged the world of detection to analyze itself. The genre has never been the same since. It was quite a start.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>John McAleer, <i>Rex Stout: A Biography</i> — Justice <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr." title="Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a> died on 6 March 1935, at ninety-four. During the last year of his life he read <i>Fer-de-Lance</i>. After his death, a marginal note he had made was found. <a href="/wiki/Carl_Clinton_Van_Doren" class="mw-redirect" title="Carl Clinton Van Doren">Carl Van Doren</a> got hold of it and showed it to Rex. It read, "This fellow is the best of them all." Another early and steadfast admirer was <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a>. Carvell Collins, whom Faulkner picked as his literary executor, says: "Among the detective fiction Faulkner read — and it was of considerable quantity — he especially liked that by Rex Stout. One of Mr. Stout's novels which was singled out was <i>Fer-de-Lance</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-McAleer_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McAleer-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>J. Kenneth Van Dover, <i>At Wolfe's Door</i> — The basic conventions are all in evidence — Wolfe's obesity, immobility, daily routines, elegant diction. Panzer, Durkin, Cather, and Gore debut in supporting roles. Wolfe and Archie engage in typical squabbles; Wolfe is gratuitously and offensively curt to certain callers, and is an irresistible host to others. His ethical standards are unusually idiosyncratic …<sup id="cite_ref-Van_Dover_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Van_Dover-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fer-de-Lance_(novel)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Meet_Nero_Wolfe"><i>Meet Nero Wolfe</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fer-de-Lance_(novel)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Meet Nero Wolfe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Meet_Nero_Wolfe" title="Meet Nero Wolfe">Meet Nero Wolfe</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stout-FDL-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A brown, orange and white book cover. Calligraphic lettering reading "A Mercury Mystery" appears above a calligraphic dagger. Below is stencil-like type that identifies the book as "Meet Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout," and a line drawing of a large seated man. A promotional quote from the New York Daily News reads, "Nero Wolfe is an absolute knockout. The plot is fool-proof and the writing above par." Below is the book's price of 25 cents." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/77/Stout-FDL-2.jpg/220px-Stout-FDL-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/Stout-FDL-2.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="269" data-file-height="370" /></a><figcaption>Legendary book designer <a href="/wiki/George_Salter" title="George Salter">George Salter</a> produced hundreds of covers for the <a href="/wiki/Digest-sized" class="mw-redirect" title="Digest-sized">digest format</a> <a href="/wiki/Paperbacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Paperbacks">paperbacks</a> published by <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_E._Spivak" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawrence E. Spivak">Lawrence E. Spivak</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_American_Mercury" title="The American Mercury">The American Mercury</a>. One of the earliest is an abridged version of <i>Fer-de-Lance</i> titled <i>Meet Nero Wolfe</i> (A Mercury Book No. 37, undated), which utilizes the title of the 1936 Columbia Pictures adaptation of the novel.</figcaption></figure> <p>Columbia Pictures adapted the first Nero Wolfe novel for the screen in 1936, as <i><a href="/wiki/Meet_Nero_Wolfe" title="Meet Nero Wolfe">Meet Nero Wolfe</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Biberman" title="Herbert Biberman">Herbert Biberman</a> directed a cast that included <a href="/wiki/Edward_Arnold_(actor)" title="Edward Arnold (actor)">Edward Arnold</a> as Wolfe; <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Stander" title="Lionel Stander">Lionel Stander</a> as Archie Goodwin; <a href="/wiki/John_Qualen" title="John Qualen">John Qualen</a> as Olaf, Wolfe's Scandinavian chef; and a young <a href="/wiki/Rita_Hayworth" title="Rita Hayworth">Rita Hayworth</a> (then Rita Cansino) as Maria Maringola, who sets the story in motion when she asks for Wolfe's help in finding her missing brother, Carlo.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2002 <i><a href="/wiki/Scarlet_Street_(magazine)" title="Scarlet Street (magazine)">Scarlet Street</a></i> magazine revisited the film—little seen in the years after its release — finding it neither the travesty it is sometimes thought to be, nor a faithful recreation of the world of Nero Wolfe. "Judging the film as a film and dismissing questions of fidelity to the source material, <i>Meet Nero Wolfe</i> is an above average minor A picture, a solid mystery, and unfailingly entertaining," the magazine reported. "No, at bottom, it's not Rex Stout's Nero and Archie, but it's a well-developed mystery (thanks to Stout's plot) with compensations all its own—and an interesting piece of Wolfeana."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nero_Wolfe_(Radiotelevisione_italiana_S.p.A.)"><span id="Nero_Wolfe_.28Radiotelevisione_italiana_S.p.A..29"></span><i>Nero Wolfe</i> (Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A.)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fer-de-Lance_(novel)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Nero Wolfe (Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A.)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On April 5, 2012, the <a href="/wiki/RAI" title="RAI">RAI</a> network in Italy began a <i>Nero Wolfe</i> television series starring <a href="/wiki/Francesco_Pannofino" title="Francesco Pannofino">Francesco Pannofino</a> as Nero Wolfe and <a href="/wiki/Pietro_Sermonti" title="Pietro Sermonti">Pietro Sermonti</a> as Archie Goodwin. Produced by Casanova Multimedia and <a href="/wiki/Rai_Fiction" title="Rai Fiction">Rai Fiction</a>, the eight-episode first season opened with "La traccia del serpente," an adaptation of <i>Fer-de-Lance</i> set in 1959 in Rome, where Wolfe and Archie reside after leaving the United States. Additional cast include <a href="/wiki/Andy_Luotto" title="Andy Luotto">Andy Luotto</a> as Wolfe's chef, Nanni Laghi; <a href="/wiki/Giulia_Bevilacqua" title="Giulia Bevilacqua">Giulia Bevilacqua</a> as reporter Rosa Petrini; and <a href="/wiki/Dajana_Roncione" class="mw-redirect" title="Dajana Roncione">Dajana Roncione</a> as Anna Fiore. The story was adapted by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Piero_Bodrato&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Piero Bodrato (page does not exist)">Piero Bodrato</a>; <a href="/w/index.php?title=Riccardo_Donna&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Riccardo Donna (page does not exist)">Riccardo Donna</a> directed.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publication_history">Publication history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fer-de-Lance_(novel)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Publication history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1934, <i><a href="/wiki/The_American_Magazine" title="The American Magazine">The American Magazine</a></i>, abridged as "Point of Death," November 1934<sup id="cite_ref-Townsend_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Townsend-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1934, New York: <a href="/wiki/Farrar_%26_Rinehart" title="Farrar & Rinehart">Farrar & Rinehart</a>, October 24, 1934, hardcover<br />In his limited-edition pamphlet, <i>Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I</i>, <a href="/wiki/Otto_Penzler" title="Otto Penzler">Otto Penzler</a> describes the "notoriously rare" <a href="/wiki/Edition_(book)" title="Edition (book)">first edition</a> of <i>Fer-de-Lance</i>: "Black cloth, front cover and spine stamped with gold lettering; rear cover blank. Issued in a mainly black, pink and green pictorial dust wrapper … As is true of all the Nero Wolfe novels published by Farrar & Rinehart, the first edition may be identified by the appearance of the publisher's monogram logo on the copyright page. If no logo appears on the copyright page the book is a later printing."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />Farrar & Rinehart issued a second printing in December 1934, and a third printing in October 1935.<sup id="cite_ref-Townsend_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Townsend-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 7">: 7 </span></sup><br />In April 2006, <i>Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine</i> estimated that the first edition of <i>Fer-de-Lance</i> had a value of $15,000 and up. The estimate is for a copy in very good to fine condition in a like dustjacket.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1934, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1934, hardcover</li> <li>1934, Brooklyn, NY: Junior Book Club, 1934, hardcover</li> <li>1935, London: Cassell, 1935, hardcover</li> <li>1936, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, June 1936, hardcover</li> <li>1941, New York: Pocket Books, July 1941, paperback</li> <li>New York: <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_E._Spivak" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawrence E. Spivak">Lawrence E. Spivak</a>, Mercury Mystery #37, not dated, abridged as "Meet Nero Wolfe," paperback</li> <li>1953, <i>Verdict</i>, June–October 1953, paperback</li> <li>1955, London: Penguin, 1955, paperback</li> <li>1958, New York: Dell Great Mystery Library D223, March 1958, paperback</li> <li>1964, New York: Pyramid (Green Door), February 1964, paperback</li> <li>1965, New York: Viking, <i>Royal Flush</i> (with <i><a href="/wiki/Murder_by_the_Book" title="Murder by the Book">Murder by the Book</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Three_Witnesses_(book)" title="Three Witnesses (book)">Three Witnesses</a></i>), July 23, 1965, hardcover</li> <li>1970, London: <a href="/wiki/Hamish_Hamilton" title="Hamish Hamilton">Hamish Hamilton</a>, hardcover</li> <li>1976, New York: <a href="/wiki/Pyramid_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyramid Books">Pyramid Books</a>, paperback</li> <li>1983, New York: <a href="/wiki/Bantam_Books" title="Bantam Books">Bantam Books</a>, paperback</li> <li>1984, New York: Bantam Books, paperback, 50th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Ellen E. Krieger and "Nero Wolfe: A Retrospective" by John McAleer</li> <li>1992, New York: Bantam Crimeline <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-553-27819-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-553-27819-3">0-553-27819-3</a> February 1992, paperback, Rex Stout Library edition with introduction by <a href="/wiki/Loren_D._Estleman" title="Loren D. Estleman">Loren D. Estleman</a> and back matter including a reprint of Rex Stout's confidential memo of September 15, 1949, describing Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin and Wolfe's office</li> <li>1998, New York: Otto Penzler Books (Otto Penzler's First Edition Library) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-883402-17-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-883402-17-4">1-883402-17-4</a>, February 1998, hardcover (facsimile first edition)</li> <li>2004, Auburn, California: The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., Mystery Masters <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57270-388-1" title="Special:BookSources/1-57270-388-1">1-57270-388-1</a>, May 2004, audio CD (unabridged, read by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Prichard" title="Michael Prichard">Michael Prichard</a>)</li> <li>2008, New York: Bantam Dell Publishing Group (with <i><a href="/wiki/The_League_of_Frightened_Men" title="The League of Frightened Men">The League of Frightened Men</a></i>) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-553-38545-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-553-38545-3">0-553-38545-3</a>, June 2008, paperback</li> <li>2010, New York: Bantam Crimeline <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-307-75592-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-307-75592-6">978-0-307-75592-6</a>, July 21, 2010, <a href="/wiki/E-book" class="mw-redirect" title="E-book">e-book</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fer-de-Lance_(novel)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/haycraftqueen.htm">"Haycraft Queen Cornerstones Complete Checklist"</a>. Classic Crime Fiction<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-05-25</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Haycraft+Queen+Cornerstones+Complete+Checklist&rft.pub=Classic+Crime+Fiction&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classiccrimefiction.com%2Fhaycraftqueen.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFer-de-Lance+%28novel%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Fer-de-Lance</i>, chapter 16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rex T. Stout, <i>The Last Drive</i>, serialized in six parts in <i>Golfers Magazine</i> from July to December 1916. The story is reprinted in Ross E. Davies & Ira Brad Matetsky, eds., <i>The 2012 Green Bag Almanac and Reader</i>, pp. 225-312.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ross E. Davies & Cattleya M. Concepcion, "Fore-Shadowed: Where Rex Stout Got the Idea for <i>Fer-de-Lance</i>", <i>The 2012 Green Bag Almanac and Reader</i> pp. 249-54, [available on SSRN <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://ssrn.com/abstract=1962907">https://ssrn.com/abstract=1962907</a>].</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/William_S._Baring-Gould" title="William S. Baring-Gould">Baring-Gould, William S.</a>, <i>Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-Fifth Street</i>. New York: <a href="/wiki/Viking_Press" title="Viking Press">Viking Press</a>, 1969, hardcover, page 9</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Quoted in Vitaris, Paula, "Miracle on 35th Street: Nero Wolfe on Television," <i><a href="/wiki/Scarlet_Street_(magazine)" title="Scarlet Street (magazine)">Scarlet Street</a></i>, issue #45, 2002, p. 36</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Fer-de-Lance</i>, Farrar & Rinehart edition, pages 193–194. A myrmidon is an unquestioning follower or subordinate who carries out orders without scruple or hesitation.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnderson1934" class="citation news cs1">Anderson, Isaac (October 28, 1934). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1934/10/28/archives/ferdelance-by-rex-stout-313-pp-new-york-farrar-rinehart-2.html">"Fer-de-Lance"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-05-25</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Fer-de-Lance&rft.date=1934-10-28&rft.aulast=Anderson&rft.aufirst=Isaac&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1934%2F10%2F28%2Farchives%2Fferdelance-by-rex-stout-313-pp-new-york-farrar-rinehart-2.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFer-de-Lance+%28novel%29" class="Z3988"></span> "Right off, Archie had stolen a major reviewer out from under Wolfe's nose," wrote John McAleer in <i>Rex Stout: A Biography</i> (p. 256). "There was to be no helping this. But it was no misfortune. If you bought Archie, sooner or later you would buy Wolfe, too. There was no other way to go. That was all the encouragement Rex needed. Wolfe had survived the journey of creation."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-COC_2-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-COC_2_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBarzunTaylor1989" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Barzun" title="Jacques Barzun">Barzun, Jacques</a>; Taylor, Wendell Hertig (1989) [1971]. <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofcrime00barz"><i>A Catalogue of Crime</i></a></span> (2nd ed.). 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href="/wiki/Category:Nero_Wolfe_characters" title="Category:Nero Wolfe characters">Characters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe" title="Nero Wolfe">Nero Wolfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archie_Goodwin_(character)" title="Archie Goodwin (character)">Archie Goodwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe_supporting_characters" title="Nero Wolfe supporting characters">Nero Wolfe supporting characters</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Nero_Wolfe_novels_by_Rex_Stout" title="Category:Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout">Novels</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Fer-de-Lance</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1934)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_League_of_Frightened_Men" title="The League of Frightened Men">The League of Frightened Men</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1935)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rubber_Band" title="The Rubber Band">The Rubber Band</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1936)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Red_Box" title="The Red Box">The Red Box</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1937)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Too_Many_Cooks_(novel)" title="Too Many Cooks (novel)"><i>Too Many Cooks</i></a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1938)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Some_Buried_Caesar" title="Some Buried Caesar">Some Buried Caesar</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1939)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Over_My_Dead_Body_(novel)" title="Over My Dead Body (novel)">Over My Dead Body</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1940)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Where_There%27s_a_Will_(novel)" title="Where There's a Will (novel)">Where There's a Will</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1940)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Silent_Speaker" title="The Silent Speaker">The Silent Speaker</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1946)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Too_Many_Women_(novel)" title="Too Many Women (novel)">Too Many Women</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1947)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/And_Be_a_Villain" title="And Be a Villain">And Be a Villain</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1948)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Second_Confession" title="The Second Confession">The Second Confession</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1949)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Best_Families" title="In the Best Families">In the Best Families</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1950)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Murder_by_the_Book" title="Murder by the Book">Murder by the Book</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1951)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Prisoner%27s_Base" title="Prisoner's Base">Prisoner's Base</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1952)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Spiders" title="The Golden Spiders">The Golden Spiders</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1953)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Black_Mountain_(novel)" title="The Black Mountain (novel)">The Black Mountain</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1954)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Before_Midnight_(novel)" title="Before Midnight (novel)">Before Midnight</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1955)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Might_as_Well_Be_Dead" title="Might as Well Be Dead">Might as Well Be Dead</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1956)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/If_Death_Ever_Slept" title="If Death Ever Slept">If Death Ever Slept</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1957)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Champagne_for_One" title="Champagne for One">Champagne for One</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1958)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Plot_It_Yourself" title="Plot It Yourself">Plot It Yourself</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1959)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Too_Many_Clients" title="Too Many Clients">Too Many Clients</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1960)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Final_Deduction" title="The Final Deduction">The Final Deduction</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1961)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gambit_(novel)" title="Gambit (novel)">Gambit</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1962)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mother_Hunt" title="The Mother Hunt">The Mother Hunt</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1963)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Right_to_Die" title="A Right to Die">A Right to Die</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1964)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Doorbell_Rang" title="The Doorbell Rang">The Doorbell Rang</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1965)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Death_of_a_Doxy" title="Death of a Doxy">Death of a Doxy</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1966)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Father_Hunt" title="The Father Hunt">The Father Hunt</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1968)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Death_of_a_Dude" title="Death of a Dude">Death of a Dude</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1969)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Please_Pass_the_Guilt" title="Please Pass the Guilt">Please Pass the Guilt</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1973)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Family_Affair_(novel)" title="A Family Affair (novel)">A Family Affair</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1975)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Nero_Wolfe_short_story_collections" title="Category:Nero Wolfe short story collections">Novellas and <br />short stories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bitter_End_(novella)" title="Bitter End (novella)">"Bitter End"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1940)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Orchids_(novella)" title="Black Orchids (novella)">"Black Orchids"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1941)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cordially_Invited_to_Meet_Death" title="Cordially Invited to Meet Death">"Cordially Invited to Meet Death"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1942)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Not_Quite_Dead_Enough_(novella)" title="Not Quite Dead Enough (novella)">"Not Quite Dead Enough"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1942)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Booby_Trap_(novella)" title="Booby Trap (novella)">"Booby Trap"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1944)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help_Wanted,_Male" title="Help Wanted, Male">"Help Wanted, Male"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1945)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Instead_of_Evidence" title="Instead of Evidence">"Instead of Evidence"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1946)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Before_I_Die_(short_story)" title="Before I Die (short story)">"Before I Die"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1947)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Man_Alive_(short_story)" title="Man Alive (short story)">"Man Alive"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1947)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bullet_for_One" title="Bullet for One">"Bullet for One"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1948)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omit_Flowers" title="Omit Flowers">"Omit Flowers"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1948)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Door_to_Death" title="Door to Death">"Door to Death"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1949)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Gun_with_Wings" title="The Gun with Wings">"The Gun with Wings"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1949)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disguise_for_Murder" title="Disguise for Murder">"Disguise for Murder"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1950)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Cop-Killer_(short_story)" title="The Cop-Killer (short story)">"The Cop-Killer"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1951)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Squirt_and_the_Monkey" title="The Squirt and the Monkey">"The Squirt and the Monkey"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1951)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Home_to_Roost_(short_story)" title="Home to Roost (short story)">"Home to Roost"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1952)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/This_Won%27t_Kill_You" title="This Won't Kill You">"This Won't Kill You"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1952)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invitation_to_Murder" title="Invitation to Murder">"Invitation to Murder"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1953)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Zero_Clue" title="The Zero Clue">"The Zero Clue"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1953)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/When_a_Man_Murders" title="When a Man Murders">"When a Man Murders"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1954)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Die_Like_a_Dog" title="Die Like a Dog">"Die Like a Dog"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1954)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Next_Witness" title="The Next Witness">"The Next Witness"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1955)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Immune_to_Murder" title="Immune to Murder">"Immune to Murder"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1955)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Window_for_Death" title="A Window for Death">"A Window for Death"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1956)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Too_Many_Detectives" title="Too Many Detectives">"Too Many Detectives"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1956)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christmas_Party_(short_story)" title="Christmas Party (short story)">"Christmas Party"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1957)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Easter_Parade_(short_story)" title="Easter Parade (short story)">"Easter Parade"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1957)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_of_July_Picnic" title="Fourth of July Picnic">"Fourth of July Picnic"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1957)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_Is_No_Joke" title="Murder Is No Joke">"Murder Is No Joke"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1958), expanded as</span> <a href="/wiki/Frame-Up_for_Murder" title="Frame-Up for Murder">"Frame-Up for Murder"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1958)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Method_Three_for_Murder" title="Method Three for Murder">"Method Three for Murder"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1960)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poison_%C3%A0_la_Carte" title="Poison à la Carte">"Poison à la Carte"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1960)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Rodeo_Murder" title="The Rodeo Murder">"The Rodeo Murder"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1960)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counterfeit_for_Murder" title="Counterfeit for Murder">"Counterfeit for Murder"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1961)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_of_a_Demon" title="Death of a Demon">"Death of a Demon"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1961)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kill_Now%E2%80%94Pay_Later" title="Kill Now—Pay Later">"Kill Now—Pay Later"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1961)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eeny_Meeny_Murder_Mo" title="Eeny Meeny Murder Mo">"Eeny Meeny Murder Mo"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1962)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blood_Will_Tell_(short_story)" title="Blood Will Tell (short story)">"Blood Will Tell"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1963)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_Is_Corny" title="Murder Is Corny">"Murder Is Corny"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1964)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counterfeit_for_Murder#"Assault_on_a_Brownstone"" title="Counterfeit for Murder">"Assault on a Brownstone"</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1985, posthumously published early draft of "Counterfeit for Murder")</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe#Adaptations" title="Nero Wolfe">Adaptations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4.5em"><a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe#Film" title="Nero Wolfe">Film</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Meet_Nero_Wolfe" title="Meet Nero Wolfe">Meet Nero Wolfe</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1936)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_League_of_Frightened_Men_(film)" title="The League of Frightened Men (film)">The League of Frightened Men</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1937)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4.5em"><a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe#Radio" title="Nero Wolfe">Radio</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Nero_Wolfe" title="The Adventures of Nero Wolfe">The Adventures of Nero Wolfe</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1943–44)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Amazing_Nero_Wolfe" title="The Amazing Nero Wolfe">The Amazing Nero Wolfe</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1945)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Nero_Wolfe" title="The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe">The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1950–51)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nero_Wolfe_(1982_radio_series)" title="Nero Wolfe (1982 radio series)">Nero Wolfe</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1982)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:4.5em"><a 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