The Father Hunt

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe, Collection 1

By: Black Eye Entertainment
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No

Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created in 1934 by the American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe’s confidential assistant Archie Goodwin narrates the cases of the overweight detective genius. In total, Stout wrote 33 novels and 39 short stories from 1934 to 1974, with most of them set in New York City. Wolfe’s residence, a luxurious...

Fer-De-Lance

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No

As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadfully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more... Read more »

Murder in E Minor

By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

Iconic sleuth Nero Wolfe returns to track down the murderer of a New York Symphony Orchestra conductor in this Nero Award–winning mystery.

Ever since disgraced associate Orrie Cather’s suicide, armchair detective Nero Wolfe has relished retirement in his Manhattan brownstone on West Thirty-Fifth Street. Two years after Cather’s death, only a...

Death on Deadline

By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

To save his favorite newspaper, Nero Wolfe steps into the crossfire of a tabloid war.

Master sleuth Nero Wolfe’s small circle of friends is limited to his assistant, Archie Goodwin; his chef, Fritz; and Lon Cohen, the head man at the New York Gazette. Cohen knows more about the city’s power structure than any man in Manhattan, and for years, he...

The Bloodied Ivy

By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No

A professor’s death lures the reclusive detective and his sidekick to a bucolic crime scene: “Goldsborough does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy” (Booklist).

An academic so conservative he thought Ronald Reagan was a pinko, Hale Markham rules Prescott University like an intellectual tyrant—until the morning he’s found dead at the bottom of...

The Last Coincidence

By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No

After the heir to a frozen-food fortune gets iced, Nero Wolfe’s right-hand man becomes a suspect: “Goldsborough does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy” (Booklist).

When Lily Rowan doesn’t laugh at his jokes, Archie Goodwin knows something’s wrong. Her niece Noreen has been running around with Sparky Linville, a club-hopping bad boy who’s the...

Fade to Black

By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

A soda war explodes into murder for Nero Wolfe, “one of the two or three most beloved detectives in fiction” (Publishers Weekly).

For the men of Madison Avenue, the battle between soft-drink giants Cherr-o-key and AmeriCherry seems heaven sent. For years now, the firm of Mills/Lake/Ryman has fought to help Cherr-o-key become the nation’s favorite...

Some Buried Caesar

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

An automobile breakdown strands Nero Wolfe and Archie in the middle of a private pasture—and a family feud over a prize bull. A restaurateur’s plan to buy the stud and barbecue it as a publicity stunt may be in poor taste, but it isn’t a crime . . . until Hickory Caesar Grindon, the soon-to-be-beefsteak bull, is found pawing the remains of a... Read more »

The Missing Chapter

By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

When a loudmouthed, arrogant author is silenced, the reclusive master detective Nero Wolfe looks for the killer.

The gun was fired close to Charles Childress’s head, and his were the only fingerprints on it, forcing the police to conclude that the author committed suicide. But his friends know this is impossible, because Childress loved himself...

Over My Dead Body

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

Nero Wolfe, lover of fine food and prize orchids, is a genius at daring detection. But he is always on guard when it comes to women. Now murder at a fencing studio engages him and his confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, in a dangerous duel with death. The prime suspect is a Balkan beauty who has a secret reason for wanting Wolfe to clear her... Read more »

Archie Meets Nero Wolfe

By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

In 1930, young Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks—with a pair of hot lead slugs.

Dismissed from his job for being “trigger-happy,” he parlays his newfound notoriety into a job as a detective’s assistant, helping honest sleuth...

Black Orchids

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

Nero Wolfe has left his comfortable brownstone for the promise of a remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show—but before Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, have a chance to stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder takes place right under their noses and puts a blight on the proceedings. Now Wolfe's fancy... Read more »

Murder in the Ball Park

By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No

Nero Wolfe earns a big league call-up after a senator gets taken out at the ball game.

Archie Goodwin and detective Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. The national anthem is just winding down when Panzer spies a notable in the box seats: state senator Orson...

Not Quite Dead Enough

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

The army wants Nero Wolfe urgently, but he refuses their clarion call to duty. It takes Archie Goodwin to titillate Wolfe’s taste for crime with two malevolent morsels: a corpse that refuses to rest in peace and a sinister “accident” involving national security. It’s up to the Grandiose Master himself, Nero Wolfe, to set the traps to catch a... Read more »

Murder, Stage Left

By: Robert Goldsborough
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s curtains for a famous Broadway director, and private investigator Nero Wolfe is on the case—but his assistant, Archie Goodwin, is a suspect.

When a renowned theater director senses something amiss during his latest production, he calls in Nero Wolfe. Though the corpulent genius wouldn’t normally accept a job this vague, a mutual friend...

And Be a Villain

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

Madeline Fraser, radio talk show host extraordinaire, had a natural dread of dead air. So when one of her on-air guests signed off at the mike after drinking a glass of a sponsor’s beverage, it was a broadcaster’s nightmare come true. Enter Nero Wolfe. He agrees to take the case, with his sizable fee contingent on his solving the murder. But to... Read more »

Archie Goes Home

By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

Archie Goodwin leaves Manhattan for the Midwest to find out who put a bullet into a banker.

Archie Goodwin’s aunt Edna is about to lure him away from his work at Nero Wolfe’s New York brownstone. After a phone call, he heads off to Ohio, where the president of Farmer’s State Bank and Trust, an elderly widower, has died in an apparent suicide. But...

In the Best Families

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

The aging millionairess has a problem: where is her young playboy husband getting all his money? To help find the answer, Archie infiltrates a party at her palatial estate. But her late-night murder ruins the festive mood . . . and a letter bomb from a powerful crime boss makes Nero Wolfe do the unthinkable—run for his life. Suddenly Archie... Read more »

Curtains For Three

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

Three clever murderers challenge Nero Wolfe in cases involving lovers who want to make sure neither is a killer, a stable full of suspects in the search for a killer on horseback, and a murderer stalking Wolfe's brownstone. Read more »

Murder By the Book

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No

“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review

Introduction by David Handler

It wasn’t Leonard Dykes’s writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy ending. Now four people are dead, including the... Read more »

Prisoner's Base

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

When Priscilla Eads, heiress to cotton-towel millions, first pleads for Nero Wolfe’s assistance, the portly detective decides to wash his hands of a case that has more than its share of dirty laundry. Just hours later Miss Eads and her maid are found strangled to death under circumstances that don’t quite wash. Now, to the dismay of a greedy... Read more »

The Black Mountain

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

When Marko Vukcic, one of Nero Wolfe's closest friends, is gunned down in cold blood, the great detective takes it personally, pledging to do everything in his considerable power to bring the killer to justice. But Wolfe's reckless vow draws him to the most lethal case of his career, propelling the portly P.I. and his faithful factotum, Archie... Read more »

Before Midnight

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

The scent of murder is in the air at the great Pour Amour perfume contest, and the incomparable Nero Wolfe is intent on sniffing out the killer. The foul deed is committed during the contest’s final round. Only five riddles separate the contestants from the million-dollar cash prize when someone finds the sweet smell of success too intoxicating... Read more »

Might As Well Be Dead

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No

“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review

Eleven years ago, wealthy Nebraska businessman James Herold gave his only son, Paul, a very raw deal. Now he wants Nero Wolfe to track Paul down so that he can make amends. But what if the young man doesn’t want to be found . . .... Read more »

If Death Ever Slept

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

With Nero Wolfe on the job, you'd think murderers would take caution. But even the master detective can't stop a killing, especially if it's an inside job—right under the roof of his client, millionaire Otis Jarrell.

What's more, it's Jarrell's own missing revolver that the killer uses. Wolfe must find the truth behind the scandals in Jarrell's... Read more »

And Four to Go

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No

“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review

Embark on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring with sudden death at the Easter Parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the... Read more »

Champagne for One

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No

There's nothing like murder to spoil a good meal. That's what Archie Goodwin, the able assistant to Nero Wolfe, discovers at a lavish dinner party hosted by a billionaire. It was a casual evening among gorgeous society girls . . . until champagne became a murder weapon.

Luckily for Archie, his boss knows champagne—and other gourmet fare. He also... Read more »

Plot it Yourself

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

When a group of publishers and writers hires Wolfe to solve a case of false plagiarism, it's time for the great detective to hit the books. Four unrelated accusers—including a down-and-out hack writer and a lady poet with a penchant for nude sunbathing—have been fleecing bestselling authors, claiming the authors have stolen their work and... Read more »

Homicide Trinity

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe’s hallowed turf—and leave a corpse strangled with Wolfe’s own soup-stained tie. But no sooner does the gourmandizing sleuth clean up this first course of murder than he faces a gun-toting wife who serves up a confession of homicidal intent—only to become the sole suspect when the corpus... Read more »

Gambit

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

Jerin is a mental freak—a man capable of successfully playing a dozen simultaneous chess games against first-rate players while he himself is out of sight of any of the boards. It is while thus engaged that he is killed. A millionaire—his opponent in more realms than chess—is accused, and Nero Wolfe is given what appears to be the most hopeless... Read more »

A Right to Die

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears.



Susan Brooke has everything going for her.  Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one... Read more »

The Doorbell Rang

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No

There’s no one and nothing the great detective Nero Wolfe wouldn’t take on if the price was right. That’s something wealthy society widow Rachel Bruner is counting on when she writes him a check for a whopping hundred grand. But even Wolfe has a moment’s doubt when he finds out why the prize is so generous. For the oversize genius and his able... Read more »

Death of a Doxy

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No

With a rich man footing the bills and a handsome lover on the side, Isabel Kerr seemed to have the perfect setup. Now the well-kept lady is stone-cold dead, and the cops have nabbed a Manhattan private eye who just happens to be an acquaintance of Nero Wolfe. Unable to refuse a friend in need, the great detective deigns to get the gumshoe off... Read more »

The Father Hunt

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

Pretty Amy Denovo wants to find the father she has never seen, but she can't afford Nero Wolfe's outlandish fees . . . or can she? Suddenly she's knocking on the oversized detective's door with a parcel full of bills in hand—and a quarter of a million hidden in her closet. It's all part of a nest egg left by her unknown father. But when Wolfe... Read more »

Death of a Dude

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

The mountain couldn’t come to Wolfe, so the great detective came to the mountain—to Lame Horse, Montana, to be exact. Here a city slicker got a country girl pregnant and then took a bullet in the back. Wolfe’s job was to get an innocent man exonerated of the crime and catch a killer in the process. But when he packed his silk pajamas and headed... Read more »

Please Pass the Guilt

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

A brilliant Rex Stout murder mystery featuring Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin
 
A bomb explodes in the desk drawer of a top TV executive. Was it intended for him or the man who opened the drawer? They each had enemies enough to die a dozen times over. Was it the jealous wife or the ambitious partner? The secretary who got passed around like an... Read more »

Death Times Three

By: Rex Stout
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

Archie Goodwin has his hands full when three baffling murders make him the recipient of a poisonous lunch, the fall guy for a beautiful woman, and the target of the U.S. Federal Government. Read more »

Stop the Presses!

By: Robert Goldsborough
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

There are few people Nero Wolfe respects, and Lon Cohen of the New York Gazette is one of them. So when Cohen asks for a favor, Wolfe is inclined to listen. According to Cohen, someone wants to kill the Gazette's gossip columnist, Cameron Clay. Death threats are a regular hazard for Clay, who has hurled insults and accusations at every...

The Battered Badge

By: Robert Goldsborough
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

A shake-up in the New York Polic Department's homicide squad following a high-profile murder is bad for business for private investigator Nero Wolfe.

When wealthy and popular crusader and reformer Lester Pierce is gunned down in front of his Park Avenue residence, the public outcry forces the NYPD to restructure its homicide department. As the...