The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

The Golden Spiders A Nero Wolfe Mystery is a 2000 madefortelevision film based on the 1953 novel by Rex Stout. Set in 1950s Manhattan, the AampE Network production stars Maury Chaykin as the heavyweight detective genius Nero Wolfe, and Timothy Hutton as Wolfes assistant, Archie Goodwin, narrator of the Nero Wolfe stories. Veteran screenwriter Paul Monash adapted the 1953 novel by Rex Stout Bill Duke directed. When it first aired on the AampE Network March 5, 2000, The Golden Spiders was seen in 3.2 million homes, making it the fourth mostwatched AampE original movie ever. Its success led to the AampE original series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery 20012002.

When Archie joins him in the dining room, Wolfe is unfazed by the news that he is overdrawn at the bank but he is taken aback at the discovery that Fritz has altered one of his favorite dishes without consulting him. The resulting tantrum prompts Archie to do something uncharacteristic when the doorbell rings admit one of the neighborhood kids, Pete Drossos Robert Clark, who says he has to see Nero Wolfe.Pete has a case. He tells Wolfe he works the wipe racket cleaning the windshields of cars stopped at intersections, for the occasional tip. About an hour before, Pete saw a goodlooking woman wearing large gold earrings shaped like spiders, at the wheel of a 1952 Cadillac. As Pete wiped her windshield the woman mouthed the words, Help. Get a cop. A male passenger stuck a gun in her ribs and the car drove off. Pete wrote down the license number. If the woman is found dead, Pete believes he can claim a reward by identifying the man who was with her. Since the case is too big for him to handle alone, Pete asks Nero Wolfe to go 5050. Wolfe instructs Archie to call the police, to suggest they do a routine check on the license plate number, and Pete hurries home to his mother. ........

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