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Nero Wolfe supporting characters

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
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The Nero Wolfe stories are populated by a cast of supporting characters who help sustain the sense that each story takes place in familiar surroundings. The main characters are Nero Wolfe, a usually stay-at-home armchair detective and Archie Goodwin, his experienced paid associate detective who lives at Wolfe's New York City home.

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