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The Best Episodes of A Nero Wolfe Mystery

Every episode of A Nero Wolfe Mystery ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of A Nero Wolfe Mystery!

Genius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes.

Genres:DramaComedyCrimeMystery
Network:A&E

Top Episode Ratings Summary

The best episode of "A Nero Wolfe Mystery" is "Death of a Doxy (2)", rated 9/10 from 118 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Death of a Doxy (2)" aired on 4/14/2002 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Silent Speaker (2)".

  • Death of a Doxy (2)
    9.0/10 118 votes

    #1 - Death of a Doxy (2)

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/14/2002

    A simple favor for a friend leads Archie to a dead body. The friend is arrested but Wolfe suspects the real murderer is still on the loose, though Archie isn't so sure. His investigations take him to the victim's sister, who is willing to go to any length to keep her sibling's transgressions a secret. Only a clever ruse by Wolfe finally flushes out the killer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Silent Speaker (2)
    9.0/10 107 votes

    #2 - The Silent Speaker (2)

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 7/21/2002

    Wolfe and Archie investigate the murder of the Head of the Bureau of Price Regulations, who was about to speak before the National Industry Association.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Death of a Doxy (1)
    8.8/10 141 votes

    #3 - Death of a Doxy (1)

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/14/2002

    A simple favor for a friend leads Archie to a dead body. The friend is arrested but Wolfe suspects the real murderer is still on the loose, though Archie isn't so sure. His investigations take him to the victim's sister, who is willing to go to any length to keep her sibling's transgressions a secret. Only a clever ruse by Wolfe finally flushes out the killer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Too Many Clients (1)
    8.7/10 114 votes

    #4 - Too Many Clients (1)

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/2/2002

    After Thomas Yeager hires Archie because he believes he's being followed, he winds up dead at a construction site. Wolfe and Archie's investigations show that the victim had many lovers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Too Many Clients (2)
    8.7/10 104 votes

    #5 - Too Many Clients (2)

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/9/2002

    After Thomas Yeager hires Archie because he believes he's being followed, he winds up dead at a construction site. Wolfe and Archie's investigations show that the victim had many lovers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Silent Speaker (1)
    8.7/10 118 votes

    #6 - The Silent Speaker (1)

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 7/14/2002

    Wolfe and Archie investigate the murder of the Head of the Bureau of Price Regulations, who was about to speak before the National Industry Association.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Motherhunt (1)
    8.6/10 128 votes

    #7 - Motherhunt (1)

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/12/2002

    A baby is left on a widow's doorstep with a note implying that her late husband had been its father. The widow, Lucy Valdon, hires Wolfe and Archie to find the true mother, but soon the case turns deadly.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Motherhunt (2)
    8.6/10 109 votes

    #8 - Motherhunt (2)

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/19/2002

    A baby is left on a widow's doorstep with a note implying that her late husband had been its father. The widow, Lucy Valdon, hires Wolfe and Archie to find the true mother, but soon the case turns deadly.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Over My Dead Body (2)
    8.5/10 115 votes

    #9 - Over My Dead Body (2)

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 7/15/2001

    As Wolfe tries to unravel the mystery of a young woman who could be his long-lost adopted daughter, she draws him and Archie Goodwin further and further into a web of deceit, political intrigue and murder.

    Director: Timothy Hutton

    Writer: N/A

  • The Next Witness
    8.5/10 113 votes

    #10 - The Next Witness

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/2002

    When Wolfe realizes his testimony will be used to convict a defendant he believes is innocent, he storms out of the trial in contempt of court. With Archie at his side and Inspector Cramer on his tail, Wolfe's investigation uncovers a complicated blackmail scheme. With the new evidence in hand, Wolfe returns to the court, much to the prosecuting attorney's annoyance.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Christmas Party
    8.4/10 146 votes

    #11 - Christmas Party

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/1/2001

    Nero Wolfe is stunned when Archie Goodwin reveals evidence of his impending engagement. However, Archie is no less shocked when accompanying his so-called fiancée to a Christmas party by the murder of their host.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Over My Dead Body (1)
    8.4/10 129 votes

    #12 - Over My Dead Body (1)

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/8/2001

    A woman from Montenegro claims that Wolfe's long-lost adopted daughter is in New York, and is accused of theft at a prestigious fencing club. Her troubles increase when a club member is found stabbed to death and she is the prime suspect.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Before I Die
    8.4/10 109 votes

    #13 - Before I Die

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/16/2002

    The gangster Dazy Perrit wants to keep his daughter's identity a secret so he hires a stand in to pose as her. But when the stand in blackmails him, he turns to Wolfe and Archie for help.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Doorbell Rang
    8.3/10 239 votes

    #14 - The Doorbell Rang

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/22/2001

    A eccentric millionairess believes she is being followed, bugged, and generally harassed by the FBI and offers Wolfe $100,000 to get them off her back.

    Director: Timothy Hutton

    Writer: N/A

  • Champagne for One (1)
    8.3/10 181 votes

    #15 - Champagne for One (1)

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/29/2001

    Archie is standing in for a friend at a party for unwed mothers when one of the guests drops dead. Through she had often talked about killing herself and was known to carry cyanide, Archie does not believe her death was suicide. A little digging uncovers the connection that proves his hunch, and Wolfe helps bring the killer to justice.

    Director: Timothy Hutton

    Writer: N/A

  • Champagne for One (2)
    8.3/10 141 votes

    #16 - Champagne for One (2)

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/6/2001

    Archie is standing in for a friend at a party for unwed mothers when one of the guests drops dead. Through she had often talked about killing herself and was known to carry cyanide, Archie does not believe her death was suicide. A little digging uncovers the connection that proves his hunch, and Wolfe helps bring the killer to justice.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Prisoner's Base (2)
    8.3/10 127 votes

    #17 - Prisoner's Base (2)

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/20/2001

    Moved by Archie Goodwin's zeal in trying to find the killer of heiress Priscilla Eads, Nero Wolfe takes on Archie as a client to aid him in his quest. Tension mounts when another woman who knew the heiress is found murdered.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Door to Death
    8.3/10 134 votes

    #18 - Door to Death

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/24/2001

    Wolfe needs a new orchid man, and goes on an adventure to find him. Only to find a murder scene at his destination and no way of retrieving the horticulturalist without first solving the mystery.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Die Like a Dog
    8.3/10 114 votes

    #19 - Die Like a Dog

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/28/2002

    Archie stumbles onto a murder scene while trying to retrieve his raincoat. Not wanting to get involved, he leaves the scene only to discover a black Labrador retriever following him. Wolfe, surprisingly, is taken by the animal and christens him Jet. When Cramer shows up in search of the pet, wolfe gets Archie involved in the investigation in order to keep the dog.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Help Wanted, Male
    8.3/10 107 votes

    #20 - Help Wanted, Male

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/30/2002

    After Wolfe turns down a request for help, the man is murdered. More troubling than that is that now Wolfe is the one being threatened. In order to buy some time Wolfe hires a body double, but will that be enough to keep him safe until he finds the killer?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Immune to Murder
    8.3/10 106 votes

    #21 - Immune to Murder

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 8/18/2002

    Wolfe is asked to cook his famous baked trout for an oilman and an Eastern European ambassador. But when Archie finds a body in the trout stream, Wolfe must solve the murder first.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Prisoner's Base (1)
    8.2/10 150 votes

    #22 - Prisoner's Base (1)

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/13/2001

    A beautiful heiress attempts to seek refuge in Nero Wolfe's house without revealing her identity or reasons for hiding. When she is turned away and found murdered shortly thereafter, Archie Goodwin takes off on his own to find the killer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Poison a la Carte
    8.2/10 117 votes

    #23 - Poison a la Carte

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/26/2002

    Someone's poisoned a lecherous producer during a banquet prepared by Fritz, and Wolfe starts investigating the kitchen before the victim has even stopped breathing. He boils down the pool of suspects to one of five female servers, but it takes a clever ruse to bring the killer out into the open.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Eeny, Meeny, Murder, Moe
    8.1/10 149 votes

    #24 - Eeny, Meeny, Murder, Moe

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/3/2001

    When fastidious Nero Wolfe abandons a stained tie after eating his lunch in his study, it is used to strangle a prospective client shortly thereafter.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Murder Is Corny
    8.0/10 116 votes

    #25 - Murder Is Corny

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/5/2002

    Inspector Cramer arrives with Wolfe's specially-picked corn, fresh from the murder scene of the delivery boy. Archie is the prime suspect in light of his infatuation with a "sweet" young farm girl turned fashion model. Once Wolfe realizes the inconvenience of Archie's potential incarceration, he joins the case, and the two eventually flush out the criminal -- but not before some deadly corn pops in their faces.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A