History Trivia / NeroWolfe

** A pilot was shot in 1959, starring Creator/WilliamShatner as Archie Goodwin. Although it was well received, the adaptation didn't go to series over disagreements whether episodes should be 30 or 60 minutes in length.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: Rather refreshingly for the mystery genre, with a rather lengthy list of creators who created famous detectives they went on to despise, this seems to have been averted. Rex Stout had a lengthy and varied publishing career behind him even before he wrote his first Wolfe novel, of which few works are remembered or loved as much; however, he appears to have been perfectly okay with this, to the point where from the late 1940s on he pretty much devoted himself solely to writing stories about Wolfe and Archie in large part because he enjoyed writing them so much.

* CreatorBreakdown: Inverted. Rex Stout had a lengthy and varied publishing career behind him even before he wrote his first Wolfe novel, of which few works are remembered or loved as much; however, from the late 1940s on he pretty much devoted himself solely to writing stories about Wolfe and Archie in large part because he enjoyed writing them so much. Some of the novels address his political issues, however:

* OutlivedItsCreator: Following Stout's death in 1975, his estate gave Robert Goldsborough authorization to continue the series. Between 1986 and 1994 he wrote 7 more Nero Wolfe novels. Reception was mixed.

** ''A Family Affair'' is Stout's response to the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation. Let us simply say Stout was ''not'' happy with Nixon.

* CreatorBreakdown: Inverted. Rex Stout had a lengthy and varied publishing career behind him even before he wrote his first Wolfe novel, of which few works are remembered or loved as much; however, from the late 1940s on he pretty much devoted himself solely to writing stories about Wolfe and Archie in large part because he enjoyed writing them so much.

* CreatorBreakdown: Inverted. Stout had a lengthy and varied publishing career behind him even before he wrote his first Wolfe novel, of which few works are remembered or loved as much; however, from the late 1940s on he pretty much devoted himself solely to writing stories about Wolfe and Archie in large part because he enjoyed writing them so much.

* CreatorBreakdown: Inverted. Stout had a lengthy and varied publishing career behind him even before he wrote his first Wolfe novel, of which few of them are remembered as much; however, from the late 1940s on he pretty much devoted himself solely to writing stories about Wolfe and Archie in large part because he enjoyed writing them so much.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In ''The Mother Hunt'' (1963), Wolfe conducts an elaborate investigation to confirm whether a foundling is the son of the deceased Richard Valdon. Just two decades later, DNA testing could have done the job. This might even qualify as CriticalResearchFailure, because already in 1963 (and as early as the 1920s) there existed various blood-type tests that could have ''disconfirmed'' Valdon's paternity, and it would have made sense to test the baby's blood before embarking on an expensive operation. A detective working in 1963 would certainly have known about blood-typing as a means of ''eliminating'' candidates for paternity. But blood testing is never even mentioned.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In ''The Mother Hunt'' (1963), Wolfe conducts an elaborate investigation to confirm whether a foundling is the son of the deceased Richard Valdon. Just a few years later, DNA testing could have done the job. This might even qualify as CriticalResearchFailure, because already in 1963 (and as early as the 1920s) there existed various blood-type tests that could have ''disconfirmed'' Valdon's paternity, and it would have made sense to test the baby's blood before embarking on an expensive operation. A detective working in 1963 would certainly have known about blood-typing as a means of ''eliminating'' candidates for paternity. But blood testing is never even mentioned.

-->"In the original draft of ''Over My Dead Body'' Nero was a Montenegrin by birth, and it all fitted previous hints as to his background; but violent protests from ''The American Magazine'', supported by [publishers] Farrar & Rinehart, caused his cradle to be transported five thousand miles."

* OutlivedItsCreator: Following Stout's death in 1975, his estate gave Robert Goldsborough authorization to continue the series. Between 1986 and 1994 he wrote 7 more Nero Wolfe novels. Reception was mixed.