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Un/Books - Section F C[Hica.Go (Rribnnt Book World Section 7 July 28 ,... ([hica.go (rrlbunt Sunday, July 28. 1974 Arts un/Books - Section f C[hica.go (rribnnt Book World Section 7 July 28. 1974 Special Rex Stout Issue After68 books, Nero's creatorisstillgoingstrong Triple Zeck And now a word or A Nero Wolfe Omnibus By Rex Stout two with the master VIking. 502 pages, $8.95 By Timothy Dickinson , Reviewed by Nelson Polsby and Rhoda Koenig If any reader doubts that Arnold Zeck is the It may disappoint his millions of readers. but worst fiend Nero Wolfe, the fat detective, has Rex Stout does not live in a West 35th Street ever encountered, he should pause to brownstone topped by a greenhouse filled consider three pieces of evidence: with orchids. He lives in Brewster, N_Y.. the l 1) Zeck <aused a machine gunner to be home of one of his lesser known detectives, stationed in the building across the street Tecumseh Fox. Nor does Stout's appearance from Wolfe's brownstone for the purpose live up to his name, or to the seventh of a ton of shattering the glass greenhouses on carried about by Nero Wolfe: he is short and Wolfe's roof. thereby exposing Wolfe's slender, with a straggly \\'hite beard that prize-winning orchid collection to the resembles Ho Chi Minh's. unwholesome rigors of New York City air. The resemblances to Wolfe, however, are <2) Zeck caused Wolfe to leave the house many. Stout's favorite color is yellow: he is on business. an enthusiastic and excellent cook: and (3) In order to accomplish Zeck's altho he does not cultivate orchids. his house undoing, it became necessary for Wolfe to and grounds contain 187 species of iris and go on a diet. more than 100 kinds of other flowering plants. All of these remarkable events and He shares Wolfe's love of order: His bedroom much more are contained in Triple Zeck, a is a model of shelves, hooks, closets, and repackaging between hard covers of three compartments that would delight Agatha classic Wolfe chronicles dating from the late O.ristie's Hercule Poirol. that passion~e 1940s. when Rex Stout was at the height of geometrician who Y(ishes that eggs could be his inventive powers. In the light of Stout's cubic. His small study contains translations longevity and fertility as a writer of Nero of the Wolfe novels (in 281anguages>. books Wolfe stories-68 of them in 40 years­ on orchids, and Practical Fingerprinting, there should be sufficient late-arriving but e!f1phatically not a copy of Webster's Nero Wolfe fans amply to justify the Third, which Wolfe, in Gambit. shredded publication of this collection. I regret only and threw on the fire, enraged that it the cheesiness of the binding, which will countenances the use or ''infer" to mean probably cause the book to fall apart long "imply." -=-- --~~ ~----~~----~~--------- before shalTnave the pieasur4toffending Like Wolfe. Stout is a voracious and it to my grandchildren, and that_, Viking opinionated reader ( ''Montaigne was a great Press is no way to treat a classic. man"; ''1 doubt very much if any Italian ever And' make no mistake, the Wolfe series wrote anything worth reading") He admires has classic dimensions. This is true not Conan Doyle. but with reservations ("Oh, he merelv because of its sheer bulk, or that of created great characters. of course: Sher- its hero. Wolfe's adventures are unadul­ ? lock Holmes is probably the most widely terated chronicles of detection. meant to be ~ known fictional character in the world. But read straight thru, for amusement Stout ~ a.c- a storyteller Conan Doyle was a joke'') drops no brand names. indulges in no And he has nothing but good to say about ethnic stereotyping, provides no torrid ! Jane Austen (''Anyone can put you in digressions into sexual monkey business. l suspense having you wonder is ~e going to It is probably Significant that there is no kill her. or is she going to sleep w1th h1m. b~t ~ero Wolfe television series. There is, in she has you on the edge of yoor chair short. a purity about the enterprise-that is wondering if Mr Woodhouse is going to tremendouslY appealing. Wolfe does not merely stumble upon clues; stands to reason: High-priced detectives remember to put his goddam shawl on"). What makes Nero Wolfe a great he leaves that for the police and for his and extortionists are likely to prey upon detective? Three things. First. his chroni­ We sat in the living room of High Meadow. bareroot empiricist assistant, Archie the same clientele. In two out of these three cles resonate beautifully with some of the a sprawling house modeled on a palace Stout Goodwin. No. lik~ the systematic,. if stories. Zeck appears only as an offstage saw m Tunis. He designed and built the hallowed traditions of the genre: Wolfe eccentric inquirer into human behavior threat; in the third. finally. Wolfe is forced himself is a character patterned after house-as well as all the furniture in it-in that he is. Wolfe frames and pursues to deal with him directly. This provides a 1930. The style is thirties avant-garde. which Mycroft Holmes. Sherlock's fat brother. hypotheses. armchair work, to be sure, but nice dramatic structure to the collection as He unmasks criminals in soul-satisfying has since settled down to being haymish. absolutelv necessary to bring coherence a whole. cJimactic confrontations with the entire Stout poured Sauvignon Blanc and benignly into the contrived confusion that clever In the first story, I am bound to say. no offered both of us cigars. cast of characters present; there is the · criminals leave behind them when they do matter how mtellectually satisfying IS theme of rivalry with the local homicide After a brisk preliminary rally !on the their work. And this makes Wolfe enor­ Wolfe's solution to the murder of Cyril detectives. things like that. rarity of Scots Quakers. the state of a mutual mous fun to watch as he sits there doing hls Orchard (poor fellow. he dr~nk a sof~­ friend's eyesight, the connection between Second, Wolfe has a nwnber of valuable detections drink laced with cyanide durmg a radio inflation and Federal Reserve policies>. he props and quirks that give him some life of Readers should be warned. however. talk show). I doubt that a jury would have • was. with great difficulty and many d~shes his 0\\-'11: He has a somewhat mysterious life that owing to the presence of th~t convicted the culprit. The fact is. Wolfe for the undergrowth-'1'he point of mter­ history, for example, including hints of early extraordinarv menace. Arnold Zeck, m sometimes loses interest in a case once he views is for me to find out something about work in the Intelligence service of the this omnibus-. Wolfe is driven to vary his gets the right answer. But any reasonably Austro-Hungarian empire, {erociou!, prej­ these people who come to see me" methods quite drastically in one of these competent defense lawyer cool~ ~ave -persuaded to talk about himself and his udices about food and people, compulsive stories. Curiously, the active Wolfe is by no littered the trail that led to Orchard s k11ler work. We succeeded only because we out­ habits that carry over from.year to year and means as plausible a figure as the familiar with reasonable doubts, extenuating cir­ to numbered him. book book. sedentary genius. cumstances. and puzzling coincidence~. Rex Todhunter Stout was bom on Dec. 1, Third, and I suppose most important, Most Wolfe stones are about murder, and in my opinion would have gotten h1s Continued on page 4 and these are about murder and black­ client off. Nelson Polsby's forthcoming book of mail Zeck. a chieftain of organized crime, I strongly urge that readersc<l!"sider_the Timothy Oicktnson and Rhcx:Ja Koemg are essays, Political Promises, contains many crosses Wolfe's path primarily because of question themselves. and at the1r earhest mysteries and few solutions. his activities as a wholesale extortionist. It opportunity. on the staff of Harper's magazine. ,- . And now, after 68 book~, a ~ Continued from page 1 invested his money in the stoc~ market. The 1886, in Noblesville, Ind., into a Quaker next year. of course, brought what Stout calls family of 11. They later moved to Kansas, "the economic disillusionment," and things where. at five, he was more than a match for did not look cheerful. But matters improved the local school system. soon enough. Stout met and married Pola, "The teacher asked me one day what was and, in 1934, with the appearance of the color of the ocean. Well, I hadn't done the Fer-de-Lance, he became the literary agent for that promising new writer, Archie lesson, and I said 'pink.' She let me know Goodwin. As far as anyone can tell, he seems what she thought of that answer. Well, for a to have lived happily ever after. year I read everything I could find about the ocean, and at the end of it I showed that Stout, claiming not to be on speaking terms teacher a list of all the colors the ocean with his unconscious, literally waves away was-'wine·dark' and so on. So she apolo­ all questions about the origin of Nero Wolfe. gized to me. She said, 'Now I seewhyyousaid "pink.'' You thought the ocean could be any "I don't know where he came from. color.' Ha." Absolutely no idea. You know, I think it's a waste of time for writers to be talking about After two weeks at the University of their o"'n writing.
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