Curtains for Three
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| Author | Rex Stout |
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| Cover artist | Bill English |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Nero Wolfe |
| Genre(s) | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Publication date | February 23, 1951 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 247 pp. (first edition) |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | In the Best Families |
| Followed by | Murder by the Book |
Curtains for Three is a collection of Nero Wolfe mystery novellas by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1951 and itself collected in the omnibus volume Full House (Viking 1955). The book comprises three stories that first appeared in The American Magazine:
- "The Gun with Wings" (December 1949)
- "Bullet for One" (July 1948)
- "Disguise for Murder" (September 1950, as "The Twisted Scarf")
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[edit] The Gun with Wings
The police are satisfied that a top tenor at the Metropolitan Opera shot himself, but his widow and the man she hopes to marry know it was murder.
[edit] Bullet for One
An industrial designer is shot to death while riding horseback in Central Park.
[edit] Disguise for Murder
The garden editor of the Gazette persuades Nero Wolfe to play host to the Manhattan Flower Club. While a couple of hundred people are upstairs in the plant rooms looking at Wolfe's orchids, a woman is strangled in his office.
[edit] Adaptations
[edit] A Nero Wolfe Mystery (A&E Network)
"Disguise for Murder" was adapted for the first season of the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002). Directed by John L'Ecuyer from a teleplay by Sharon Elizabeth Doyle, the episode made its debut June 3, 2001, on A&E.
Timothy Hutton is Archie Goodwin; distinguished character actor Maury Chaykin is Nero Wolfe. Other members of the cast (in credits order) include Bill Smitrovich (Inspector Cramer), Saul Rubinek (Lon Cohen), Colin Fox (Fritz Brenner), James Tolkan (W.J.), Debra Monk (Mrs. Carlisle), Kathryn Zenna (Cynthia Brown), Trent McMullen (Orrie Cather), Conrad Dunn (Saul Panzer), R.D. Reid (Sergeant Purley Stebbins), Aron Tager (Mr. Carlisle), Nicholas Campbell (Colonel Percy Brown), Nancy Beatty (Mrs. Orwin), Philip Craig (Gene Orwin), Beau Starr (Malcolm Vedder), Richard Waugh (Dr. Morley) and Ken Kramer (Dr. Vollmer).
In international broadcasts, the episodes "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo" and "Disguise for Murder" are linked and expanded into a 90-minute widescreen telefilm titled "Wolfe Stays In."[1]
A Nero Wolfe Mystery is available on DVD from A&E Home Video. ISBN 076708893X
[edit] Nero Wolfe (CBC Radio)
"Disguise for Murder" was adapted as the premiere episode of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio series Nero Wolfe (1982), starring Mavor Moore as Nero Wolfe and Don Francks as Archie Goodwin. Written by Ron Hartmann, the hour-long adaptation aired on CBC Stereo January 16, 1982, with guest stars Fiona Reid, Jack Creley and Neil Munro.
[edit] External links
- A Nero Wolfe Mystery — "Disguise for Murder" at the Internet Movie Database
- A Nero Wolfe Mystery — "Disguise for Murder" at The Wolfe Pack, official site of the Nero Wolfe Society
[edit] Release details
- 1997, USA, Books on Tape, Inc. ISBN 0736637478 July 21, 1997, audio cassette (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard)
- 1995, USA, Bantam ISBN 055376294X January 2, 1995, paperback
[edit] References
- ^ Sky Movies (UK) summary retrieved October 4, 2007; run length of "Wolfe Stays In" is recorded as 90 minutes. Program listings for Saturday, November 6, 2004, broadcast on Sky Movies 6 records broadcast as widescreen format.
