History Heartwarming / NeroWolfe

* [[AC:''Literature/BeforeMidnight'']]

* Wolfe making sure the African-American chefs who prepared his meals for a society of [[SupremeChef Supreme Chefs]] receive personal credit and praise for it, partially as gratitude for their help on the case.

* At the end of ''The Golden Spiders'', Wolfe burns the notebook containing the lists of illegal immigrants who were targeted by a blackmail operation rather than submit it into evidence, so that the people listed within can make new lives for themselves free from being hassled either by the authorities or by unscrupulous criminals.
* In ''Literature/FerDeLance'', Archie recounts a past case where he got badly beaten by a bunch of thugs, woke up in the hospital, and called Wolfe, threatening to quit. To his astonishment, Wolfe actually came to the hospital (read: actually ''left the house'', something he ''never'' does) to pick him up. Archie remembers that at that time he was so shocked that he immediately forgot about quitting.
* "Too Many Detectives" ends with Wolfe getting invited to a dinner in his honor as thanks from all the detectives whose names he helped clear. Archie can tell from his body language that he's very touched, and [[KneelBeforeFrodo he counters by offering them a meal he prepares at his own home, to show ''his'' appreciation]].
* Wolfe's final interaction with Carla at the end of ''Literature/OverMyDeadBody''.
* At the end of ''Literature/TheSilentSpeaker,'' Inspector Cramer gifts Wolfe an orchid as thanks for saving his job. Wolfe is clearly appreciative and touched, despite Archie noting that it's a common variety that Wolfe already has several superior specimens of.
* Wolfe making sure the African-American chefs who prepared his meals for a society of [[SupremeChef Supreme Chefs]] receive personal credit and praise for it, partially as gratitude for their help on the case, in ''Literature/TooManyCooks''.
* When Archie visits Sarah Jaffee in ''Prisoner's Base'', after leaving, he makes sure to deliberately take away her husband's old coat and hat draped over a chair, something Sarah had mentioned have been a painful reminder of him for years (he died in World War II, and had casually left the coat there the last time she saw him) but one that she doesn't have the heart to take away herself. His interactions with potential client Priscilla Eads in the same book are also kind of cute.
** In the same novel, Wolfe revealing who his client is to the authorities, and why:

* Fritz's joy after Wolfe and Archie return to the brownstone in ''Literature/InTheBestFamilies'' and how he works to prepare such a fine welcome back dinner. Archie compares it to a father welcoming home his lost children.

* Philip Younger and Carol Wheelock in ''Before Midnight'' are just as determined to win the grand prize as the other contest finalists, but both mention planning to spend a lot of the prize money for the benefit of their families (in Younger's case, partially out of gratitude for them having lodged him for so long after he lost his money in TheGreatDepression).
* Wolfe's [[HeroesLoveDogs instantly affectionate relationship]] with black lab Jet in "Die Like a Dog."
* Celia Grantham's reaction to finding out that her love interest fathered an illegitimate child in ''Champagne to One'' isn't scandalized anger or jealousy, but happiness due to that proof of fertility being a sign that they can indeed have a family if they get married.

* At the end of ''Literature/TheSilentSpeaker,'' Inspector Cramer gifts Wolfe an orchid as thanks for saving his job. Wolfe is clearly appreciative and touched.

* Wolfe's final interaction with Carla at the end of ''Over My Dead Body''.
* At the end of ''The Silent Speaker,'' Inspector Cramer gifts Wolfe an orchid as thanks for saving his job. Wolfe is clearly appreciative and touched.

* Fritz's joy after Wolfe and Archie return to the brownstone in ''In the Best Families'' and how he works to prepare such a fine welcome back dinner. Archie compares it to a father welcoming home his lost children.

* Celia Grantham's reaction to finding out that her love interest fathered an illegitimate child in ''Champagne to One'' isn't scandalized anger or jealousy, but happiness due to it being a sign that they can indeed have a family if they get married.

* James Younger and Carol Wheelock in ''Before Midnight'' are just as determined to win the grand prize as the other contest finalists, but both mention planning to spend a lot of the prize money for the benefit of their families (in Younger's case, partially out of gratitude for them having lodged him for so long after he lost his money in TheGreatDepression).

* Wolfe's interactions with his adopted daughter Carla.

* Wolfe making sure the African-American chefs who prepared his meals for a society of SupremeChef's receive personal credit and praise for it, partially as gratitude for their help on the case, in ''Literature/TooManyCooks''.
* When Archie visits Sarah Jaffee in ''Prisoner's Base'', after leaving, he makes sure to deliberately take away her husband's old coat draped over a chair, something Sarah had mentioned has been a painful reminder of him for years (he died in World War II, and had casually left the coat there the last time she saw him) but one that she doesn't have the heart to take away herself. His interactions with potential client Prisicilla Eads in the same book are also kind of cute.

* Wolfe's final meeting with Carla in ''Over My Dead Body''.

* Fritz's joy after Wolfe and Archie return to the brownstone in ''The Best of Families'' and how he works to prepare such a fine welcome back dinner. Archie compares it to a father welcoming home his lost children.
* In ''The Zero Clue'', after spending pretty much the whole story insulting Leo Heller, a professional rival of his and [[spoiler: the VictimOfTheWeek]], Wolfe makes sure to retract this in front of everyone involved in the case, and state that Heller has earned his admiration, after he solves the case thanks to Heller's [[spoiler: DyingClue]].

* Wolfe's [[HeroesLoveDogs instantly affectionate relationship]] with black lab Jet in ''Die Like a Dog''.
* How Cecelia Grantham's reaction to finding out that her love interest fathered an illegitimate child in ''Champagne to One'' isn't scandalized anger, or jealousy, but happiness due to it being a sign that they can indeed have a family if they get married.

-->''I didn’t have a client this morning, or even an hour ago, but now I have. Mr. Rowcliff’s ferocious spasms, countenanced by you gentlemen, have made the challenge ineluctable. When Mr. Goodwin said that I was not concerned in this matter and that he was acting solely in his own personal interest, he was telling the truth. As you may know, he is not indifferent to those attributes of young women that constitute the chief reliance of our race in our gallant struggle against the menace of the insects. He is especially vulnerable to young women who possess not only those more obvious charms but also have a knack of stimulating [[KnightInShiningArmor his love of chivalry and adventure and his preoccupation with the picturesque and the passionate]]. Priscilla Eads was such a woman. She spent some time with Mr. Goodwin yesterday; he locked her in a bedroom of my house. Within three hours of her eviction by him at my behest, she was brutally murdered. I will not say that the effect on him amounted to derangement, but it was considerable. He bounded out of my house like a man obsessed, after telling me that he was going single-handed after a murderer, and after arming himself. It was pathetic, but it was also humane, romantic, and thoroughly admirable, and your callous and churlish treatment of him leaves me with no alternative. I am at his service. He is my client.”

* When Archie visits Sarah Jaffee in ''Prisoner's Base'', after leaving, he makes sure to deliberately take away her husband (who died in world war II's) old coat draped over a chair, something Sarah had mentioned has been a painful reminder of him for years, but one that she doesn't have the heart to take away herself. His interactions with potential client Prisicilla Eads in the same book are also kind of cute.

* ''Too Many Detectives'' ends with Wolfe getting invited to a dinner in his honor as thanks from all the detectives whose names he helped clear. Archie can tell from his body language that he's very touched, and [[KneelBeforeFrodo he counters by offering them a meal he prepares at his own home, to show ''his'' appreciation]].

* ''Too Many Detectives'' ends with Wolfe getting invited to a dinner in his honor as thanks from all the detectives he helped clear. Archie can tell from his body language that he's very touched, and [[KneelBeforeFrodo he counters by offering them to eat a meal he prepares at his home, to show ''his'' appreciation]].

* In ''NeroWolfe/FerDeLance'', Archie recounts a past case where he got badly beaten by a bunch of thugs, woke up in the hospital, and called Wolfe, threatening to quit. To his astonishment, Wolfe actually came to the hospital (read: actually ''left the house'', something he ''never'' does) to pick him up. Archie remembers that at that time he was so shocked that he immediately forgot about quitting.

* In ''Fer-de-Lance'', Archie recounts a past case where he got badly beaten by a bunch of thugs, woke up in the hospital, and called Wolfe, threatening to quit. To his astonishment, Wolfe actually came to the hospital (read: actually ''left the house'', something he ''never'' does) to pick him up. Archie remembers that at that time he was so shocked that he immediately forgot about quitting.

* See also the [[Heartwarming/ANeroWolfeMystery heartwarming moments]] from the [[Series/ANeroWolfeMystery TV adaptations.]]

* In "Fer-de-Lance", Archie recounts a past case where he got badly beaten by a bunch of thugs, woke up in the hospital, and called Wolfe, threatening to quit. To his astonishment, Wolfe actually came to the hospital (read: actually ''left the house'', something he ''never'' does) to pick him up. Archie remembers that at that time he was so shocked that he immediately forgot about quitting.

* see also {{Heartwarming.A Nero Wolfe Mystery}}.

* The ending of ''Over My Dead Body'' (or the A&E adaptation thereof at least, this troper not being familiar with the original novel), when Wolfe basically offers to support the woman now revealed to be his adoptive daughter in typical blustery, awkward style.