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Nero Wolfe é uma série de televisão dramática americana baseada nos personagens das histórias de detetive de Rex Stout. A série foi exibida na NBC de 16 de janeiro a 25 de agosto de 1981. William Conrad interpreta o papel do gênio detetive Nero Wolfe, e Lee Horsley é seu assistente Archie Goodwin. Produzida pela Paramount Television, a série atualiza o mundo de Nero Wolfe para a Nova York contemporânea e retira poucas de suas histórias dos originais de Stout.
“I am nobody's friend. How much can you pay?”
“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
“Wolfe frowned at her. He hated fights about wills, having once gone so far as to tell a prospective client that he refused to engage in a tug of war with a dead man's guts for a rope.”
“I'm fairly good with a billiard cue, and only Saul Panzer can beat me at tailing a man or woman in New York, but what I am best at is reporting a complicated event to Nero Wolfe.”
“Apparently you have performed prodigies of sagacity and finesse without knowing it. Not surely by inadvertence. It must be that your singular faculties operate below the level of consciousness -- or above it. Perhaps the psychologists should add a new term, superconscious.”
“I had first noticed her in the lobby of the Churchill, because she rated a glance as a matter of principle — the principle that a man owes it to his eyes to let them rest on attractive objects when there are any around.”
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