title: Stout Fellow: A Guide Through Nero Wolfe's World
author: Ron Owens
description: O.E. McBride is the pseudonym of an author who primarily writes in the non-fiction, history and biography genres. One of his few fiction interests has always been Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series, a canon he has read and re-read since childhood. This work is his homage to the series.
zlib_text: **Rex Stout**
  
   **And Four To Go**
  
   **Introduction**
  
   **WHEN IT WAS FIRST suggested that I write an introduction to one of the
  volumes in this edition of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels, it never occurred to
  me that Bantam would come up with one I hadn’t even read. For one thing, I
  didn’t think there were any Nero Wolfe books I hadn’t read. Even if I hadn’t
  been married to one of the great Rex Stout fans of all time-and therefore
  living in a house more littered with Wolfian tributes than with cats-I would
  have been destined to encounter a good deal of the Wolfe canon in childhood. I
  was born and brought up in a small Connecticut town abutting the one in which
  Stout spent most of his life. My father’s law partner drew up Stout’s will and
  his estate, High Meadow, is legendary there. So is Stout himself, of course,
  and for more reasons than the simple fact that he produced a number of
  excellent light mysteries about the most eccentric master detective of them
  all. Like most other states, 