"Bullet for One" was originally published in "The American Magazine." It was later republish in book form as one of the stories in "Curtains for Three." It was also included in "Full House: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus" that contains "The League of Frightened Men," "And Be a Villain" and "Curtains for Three." In "Bullet for One" an industrial designer is shot to death while riding horseback in New York's Central Park and Nero Wolfe goes through one meager clue after the other to solve the murder and expose the culprit. This is a spectacular story, in which is a posse on horseback chases a killer through the Park, nearly all of the clients are arrested, and two suspects slug it out in the office when Archie Goodwin steps to the hallway.
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Rex Todhunter Stout (1886 – 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair). The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.
