The Rodeo Murder

"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).

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.

"The Penthouse Murder," illustrated by Sam Bates, appeared in the January 1961 issue of *Argosy* magazine