Nero Wolfe Mysteries Books in Order

A famed conductor from Wolfe's Montenegrin past receives death threats and is soon murdered. The case pulls Wolfe out of retirement and back into the business of solving very complicated deaths.

When a struggling newspaper faces a ruthless takeover, the apparent suicide of its chief shareholder changes everything. Wolfe steps into a dirty press war to protect Lon Cohen's paper and uncover the truth.

A tyrannical professor is found dead at the bottom of a university ravine, and Wolfe is intrigued enough to leave home. On campus, academic feuds and private ambitions make a tidy scholarly world look very dangerous.

After Lily Rowan's niece is assaulted, Archie confronts the smooth young man at the center of the trouble. By morning the man is dead, and Archie is suddenly the one who needs Wolfe's help.

A Madison Avenue agency hires Wolfe to find the mole leaking its soda campaign ideas to a rival. Then an ad man dies, and corporate espionage turns into something much darker.

Threats against a famous televangelist seem beneath Wolfe, until the case turns deadly and investigator Fred Durkin is blamed. To clear his friend, Wolfe has to dig into the power struggles around a glittering ministry.

A loudmouthed mystery writer appears to have killed himself, but no one who knew him buys that for a second. Wolfe sorts through agents, editors, critics, and furious fans to find the real culprit.

In 1930, young Archie Goodwin lands in New York looking for excitement and stumbles into detective work. A kidnapping case brings him to Nero Wolfe and tests whether he deserves a place at the brownstone.

A corrupt state senator is shot dead during a Giants-Dodgers game at the Polo Grounds. Archie follows the case for the widow, and finds that a crowded stadium can hide a very personal murder.

Two gunshots nearly hit Archie on the doorstep of Wolfe's brownstone, and the warning is clear. Wolfe must identify the enemy behind the attack before the next bullet finds its mark.

New York's most hated gossip columnist says someone wants him dead, and soon proves him right. Wolfe and Archie must sort through a long list of enemies after the paper refuses to believe the death was suicide.

A worried Broadway director brings Wolfe into a troubled production, then dies in his soundproof booth during a performance. Archie works the backstage gossip, until he becomes a suspect himself.

A reformer's murder throws the NYPD into chaos and threatens Inspector Cramer's position. To keep a dangerous rival from gaining power, Wolfe takes on the case without even waiting for a client.

When wealthy collector Arthur Wordell falls from his office window, the police see an accident but his daughter does not. Wolfe and Archie dig into museum politics, old resentments, and a suspiciously crowded circle of admirers.

Archie heads to small-town Ohio after his aunt doubts a banker's apparent suicide. Family ties, local gossip, and buried scandals soon turn the trip into a full murder investigation.

After Wolfe's orchid man Theodore Horstmann is beaten and left comatose, Archie goes undercover near the docks to learn what Theodore was mixed up in. A second killing shows the case reaches far beyond one brutal street attack.

Lily Rowan asks Archie to help find her missing friend Maureen, the daughter of a steel magnate. The search through penthouse rooms, suitors, and family trouble becomes a murder case before long.

News that Fritz's cousin is missing pulls the brownstone household into rare upheaval. When Fritz disappears in Switzerland as well, Wolfe and Archie head abroad and uncover a deadly cross-border secret.