This annual event is held each December in New York City. The Assembly sessions discuss and explore the Corpus. Speakers have included a New York City coroner, president of an orchid society, a nutritionist, and natives of Montenegro, where Wolfe spent his formative years and, quite possibly, was born. The assembly is followed by the oldest and most important event, the annual Black Orchid Banquet. Each year Wolfe Pack members and their guests gather for a meal prepared using recipes from the The Nero Wolfe Cookbook.

Keynote speakers have included Michael Jaffe, Executive Producer of the A&E Nero Wolfe series, Robin Winks, mystery book reviewer for the Boston Globe and professor at Yale, a private detective, the Press Secretary to the Lt. Governor of  NY, a Police Inspector, a New Yorker (and VERY reknowned comic author/illustrator) named Archie Goodwin,  Polly Whitney, a mystery writer who built a model of the brownstone, and Ellen Krieger, founder of the Wolfe Pack.

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Although the books give addresses that place Nero Wolfe's brownstone in the Hudson River, the Wolfe Pack located the probable residence. In 1996, a plaque was affixed to 454 West 35th Street and dedicated by Commissioner Henry Stern, Department of Parks and Recreation, New York City. Click on the sidebar to visit the Wolfe Pack's scrapbook of newspaper coverage, photos, and the plaque at 454 W. 35th Street [About Us/454 W. 35th St.].

At the annual Black Orchid Banquet, the Wolfe Pack presents the annual Nero Wolfe Award to an author for literary excellence in the mystery genre. Past winners of the award include Martha Grimes, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, and Sharyn  McCrumb, all of whom attended the banquet. For more information, visit The Nero Award page. Click the image of the award to enlarge it.

To celebrate the novella format, an important part of the corpus of Rex Stout, the Wolfe Pack and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine have partnered to sponsor the Black Orchid Novella Award. Jane Cleland, long-term Wolfe Pack member, is the chair of the event. "At every mystery conference and event I attend, people are excited about the opportunity to write a novella—and they're excited about the great prize—$1,000 from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine—plus, of course, publication in the magazine!"

For further information regarding procedures, submission directions and other information, use the "Literary Awards" menu to the left.

A favorite Fall event is a Brunch Hunt. The group embarks on a detective mission using a series of directions, based on the Corpus, to locate the previously undisclosed restaurant.  The hunt ends in a brunch where members and their guests enjoy Wolfean conversation.

Special events have included a trip to The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (TWICE), which served as Stout's model for Kanawah Spa in Too Many Cooks. The Stout family invited members to picnic on the grounds of the family home designed and built by Stout. The Pack screened two 1930's films based on Nero Wolfe, Meet Nero Wolfe and The League of Frightened Men. A special destination was the Wolfe Pack trip to Toronto, to the set of the A&E T. V. Series.  The Pack members met and mingled with the cast, crew, and set.  Other recent events included a Halloween Party, a racetrack outing, and an interactive mystery game.  Feel free to take a look at The Wolfe Pack Album for more information and pictures of events from the last few years.

I had to finish off a roll of film, so what better subject? 
Here's Bearowance.  He normally sits
on my couch but this is a formal sitting,
hence the whitish background.

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