Archie Goodwin

Archie Goodwin is a fictional character and detective in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries. The witty voice of all the stories, he recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair). He lives in Nero Wolfe's brownstone in New York City. Archie was born on October 23 in Chillicothe, Ohio, but moved to Zanesville by age 12. In Fer-de-Lance we learn that Archie's parents died when he was still a child, but in The Final Deduction both Archie and Wolfe refer to Archie's mother as still alive; in The Rubber Band we find that Archie has a sister who once gave him silk pajamas for Christmas. I know pretty well what my field is. Aside from my primary function as the thorn in the seat of Wolfe's chair to...