Nevertheless, in a few years, Stout settled into a general image of how life was lived at 918 W. 35th Street. Uh, in the fireplace in the front parlor. Hadn't noticed that before. And a chair pops up across from the coat rack, a pool table is established in the basement, a window is needed for an escape, this and that. But Stout calls for the famous waterfall portrait with a peephole to be behind Wolfe, ergo, Wolfe is not seated facing the door, and Archie can be place eight feet away and at right angles as called for in the Master's text.
Small details can also be a problem.
Stout has the light switch on the left inside of the door to the office as you enter, but that would have the door hinged on the wrong side, swinging into the room and furniture, rather than as I have drawn it, swinging into a wall. Ain't no other way. So this is it. Nero Wolfe who owns the house was born in Yugoslavia, immigrated to the United States, and somehow ended up as a licensed detective in New York City. Hence, Archie Goodwin, his chief investigator, right arm, leg man, muscle, and goad who is also, not too incidently, his Dr. Watson and Boswell.