Rex Stout — American Writer born on December 01, 1886, died on October 27, 1975

Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction, particularly the 33 novels and about 40 novellas that featured the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin between 1934 and 1975... (wikipedia)

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.