Three at Wolfe's Door

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**Title** **Three at Wolfe's Door**
Author	Rex Stout
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Nero Wolfe
Genre(s)	Detective fiction
Publisher	Viking Press
Released	April 29, 1960
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	186 pp.
ISBN	ISBN 0-553-23803-5
Preceded by	Plot It Yourself
Followed by	Too Many Clients

Three at Wolfe's Door is a collection of Nero Wolfe novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1960. The book is comprised of three stories, one of them published previously:

"Poison à la Carte"
"Method Three for Murder" (previously serialized in three issues of The Saturday Evening Post, January 30–February 13, 1960)
""The Rodeo Murder"

1 Poison à la Carte
2 Method Three for Murder
3 The Rodeo Murder
4 Adaptations
- 4.1 A Nero Wolfe Mystery (A&E Network)

[edit] Poison à la Carte

Wolfe reluctantly agrees to let Fritz prepare the annual dinner for the Ten for Aristology — "a group of ten men pursuing the ideal of perfection in food and drink" — at the home of millionaire orchid fancier Lewis Hewitt. He and Archie are guests at the table where one of the ten becomes acutely ill during the meal and soon dies of arsenic poisoning. Wolfe resolves to clear any suspicion that Fritz is responsible by discovering which of the actresses serving the meal is the guilty party.

[edit] Method Three for Murder

After discovering a body in the back seat, Mina Holt drives the taxi she has borrowed for the evening to 918 West 35th Street. She walks up the front steps of the brownstone just as Archie is walking down -- having just told Nero Wolfe that he's quit.

[edit] The Rodeo Murder

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 Wolfe to sort out the murder.

[edit] Adaptations

[edit] A Nero Wolfe Mystery (A&E Network)

"Poison a la Carte" was adapted for the second season of the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002). In international broadcasts, the 45-minute A&E version of "Poison a la Carte" is expanded into a 90-minute widescreen telefilm.