When I was nine years old, my dad was in the US Navy and we were stationed in Valparaiso, Chile. I was already a big comic book fan (Black Hawk, The Phantom, and The Lone Ranger were my favorites), but about then I began to read books. Since there was no TV there, reading was the only entertainment on rainy non-school days. And all the books in the stores were in Spanish! So I found the library at the Episcopal Church, which was comprehensive and catholic. They had *Anne of Green Gables*, *The Three Musketeers*, *Homers Odyssey*, many of the old Nancy Drew mysteries, and a lot of other old classics -- in English. And the pastor must have been a mystery fan, because they had Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh. And they had Rex Stout. Not all of them, but a lot. And those puzzles were soooooo fascinating to a nine-year-old. So... How did you meet Nero Wolfe? Where did you find your first Nero Wolfe novel, and do you remember what it was? Tell us how you came to be Wolfean.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:43:03 +0000
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