I'm reading the Wolfe canon in order, too, as it happens, but I am farther
back; I've finished the first seven novels up through "Over My Dead Body,"
so I'm nine novels and seven novella collections behind you.
The Wikipedia entry on "The Golden Spiders" mentions that the scene you
describe represents "a spate of violence that is very rare in the Wolfe
series." Peaceable soul though I am, I suppose I can handle it if Archie
goes all Mike Hammer once or twice in the corpus.
I don't recall how this scene figured in the Timothy Hutton/Maury Chaykin
version of "The Golden Spiders," a two-hour adaptation that was the pilot
for the excellent A&E Wolfe series. All things considered, Hutton's and
Stout's Archie is kind of who I would like to be, and I certainly try to at
least dress the part. I'm more of a French cuffs enthusiast than Archie, but
we're both pocket square and fedora guys. (The emphasis on Archie's wardrobe
in the television series is true to the novels, where Archie often talks of
his and other men's clothing. Hutton's Archie is a bit more eye-popping with
his bright summer colors and spectator shoes.)
Best regards,
Patrick Murtha
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:50 PM, noblegasesuk <noblegasesuk@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm working my way through the Nero Wolfe canon and I've just finished "The
> Golden Spiders" and I'm pretty horrified that Archie resorts to torture of
> an informant.
>
> I'm trying to read the canon in chronological order but I have read a
> couple of books that follow "The Golden Spiders" and the Archie they
> presented wasn't nearly as hard-boiled as this one.
>
> The question: does Archie torture anyone else in the canon?
>
> -- Tony
>
>
>
-- Mark R. Harris BCM Language Center 7F Jungwoo B/D 73-62 Yongho-dong Changwon, Kyungnam Republic of Korea 641-748 mark_r_harris@yahoo.com brokerharris@gmail.com[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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