| 词条 | The Rodeo Murder |
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| name = The Rodeo Murder | image = | caption = | author = Rex Stout | title_orig = | translator = | country = United States | language = English | series = Nero Wolfe | genre = Detective fiction | published_in =Three at Wolfe's Door | publication_type = | publisher =Viking Press | media_type =Hardcover | pub_date = April 29, 1960 | english_pub_date = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | preceded_by_italics = | followed_by_italics = }} "The Rodeo Murder" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, first published in April 1960 in the short-story collection Three at Wolfe's Door (Viking Press). Plot summary{{Expand section|date=November 2013}}A party at Lily Rowan's Park Avenue penthouse includes a roping contest between some cowboy friends, with a silver-trimmed saddle as the prize. One of the contestants is at a disadvantage when his rope is missing. When it is found wound more than a dozen times around the neck of the chief backer of the World Series Rodeo, Lily asks Nero Wolfe to sort out the murder. Publication history"The Rodeo Murder"
Three at Wolfe's Door
Contents include "Poison à la Carte", "Method Three for Murder" and "The Rodeo Murder" In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #10, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part II, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of Three at Wolfe's Door: "Orange cloth, front cover and spine printed with dark brown. Issued in a mainly green-brown dust wrapper."[2]{{Rp|11}} In April 2006, Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine estimated that the first edition of Three at Wolfe's Door had a value of between $200 and $350. The estimate is for a copy in very good to fine condition in a like dustjacket.[3]
The far less valuable Viking book club edition may be distinguished from the first edition in three ways:
References1. ^Townsend, Guy M., Rex Stout: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1980. John McAleer, Judson Sapp and Arriean Schemer are associate editors of this definitive publication history. {{ISBN|0-8240-9479-4}} {{Nero Wolfe}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rodeo Murder, The}}2. ^Penzler, Otto, Collecting Mystery Fiction #10, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part II. New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2001. Limited edition of 250 copies. 3. ^Smiley, Robin H., "Rex Stout: A Checklist of Primary First Editions." Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine (Volume 16, Number 4), April 2006, p. 34 4. ^Penzler, Otto, Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I. New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2001. Limited edition of 250 copies. 2 : 1960 short stories|Nero Wolfe short stories |
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