Story Information: 
			First Composed: 1956 
			First Published: 1956 
			From Collection: Three for the Chair 
			Location: Albany, 
			New York 
			Wolfe's Brownstone: Click to View Floorplan 
			 
			Victim #1: William A. Donahue (in Albany, NY) 
			Murderer: Albert Hyatt 
			Motive: Donahue threatened to expose Hyatt 
			Weapon: Brass ashtray to head; strangled with necktie 
			Client: Nero Wolfe and 
			Archie Goodwin 
			Fee: Both able to return home 
             
			 Story Synopsis: 
			      
			 Together with a passel of private detectives, Nero Wolfe 
			 solves a murder at a New York state office.  The murderer crudely attempts to frame Wolfe for murder but is exposed, though both Wolfe and 
			 Archie Goodwin are arrested and held as material 
			 witnesses. Dol Bonner and 
			 Sally Colt prove to Archie that women can be good PI's.
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