Graham Greene's 1939 spy novel "The Confidential Agent" includes a pretty early example of this one, when a gang of kids successfully use a single bullet to break into a locked shed where dynamite is stored. (Greene was a movie buff so he probably borrowed it from there?)
Graham Greene's 1939 spy novel "The Confidential Agent" includes a pretty early example of this one, when a gang of kids successfully use a single bullet to break into a locked shed where dynamite is stored. (Greene was a movie buff so he probably borrowed it from there?)