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    Death of a Doxy

    Written by Rex Stout

    Narrated by Michael Prichard

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    When an old acquaintance and fellow P.I. is accused of murdering a kept woman, Nero Wolfe investigates and finds several suspects in a mystery blackmailer, a sexy lounge singer, and a cold-blooded lady-killer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 6, 2007
    ISBN9781415938225
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    Death of a Doxy
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    Rex Stout

    Rex Todhunter Stout (1886 – 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe and assistant Archie Goodwin. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century. Rex passed away in 1975.

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    • 5/5
      A "kept' woman is murdered and one of Wolfe's hirelings is accused. Nice plot, and one used in the Timothy Hutton video versions.
    • 4/5
      Another good Wolfe novel, covered well by the TV series circa 2000. The most interesting character is Julie Jacquette, fresh from the stage of the Ten Little Indians.
    • 4/5
      Pretty good mystery but what really makes me give it 4* instead of 3.5* is Julie Jacquette! I love the way she interacts with Wolfe.
    • 5/5
      Doxy: A woman who cohabits with an important man. Syn: concubine, courtesan, paramour

      Isabel Kerr lived a luxurious life paid for by someone with a lot of money. Someone didn't like the idea and put an end to it. What brought Nero Wolfe and Archie into the case was the arrest of Orrie Cather, one of their assistants. Orrie had made the mistake of being a frequent visitor to Isabel's.

      An interesting cast of characters who all tie back to Isabel on some level, yet know hardly anything about each other: a sister and brother-in-law, the rich man footing the bills, Isabel's best friend - a showgirl who isn't afraid to say what she thinks and isn't afraid of Nero Wolfe, a police captain looking to solve the case but can't come up with any definite evidence, and blackmail all combine to provide a tight and tangled tale of murder.
    • 5/5
      I'm a Rex Stout fan. I've been reading Nero Wolfe since I was 15. Death of Doxy is one of my favorites.

      Rex Stout was a genius at defining characters through their interactions with others. He never left his main characters with simple shallow stereotypes. Nero Wolfe is a misogynist, but in this book, he shows respect for a showgirl of all women. His treatment of her is entirely within his character. A lesser author would have made his hatred of women be a badge, not a a part of the whole. Not a thing that had reason and cracks.

      Its a great novel. But I love it because of the relationship that develops between Wolfe and the showgirl.
    • 4/5
      This is not my favorite Nero Wolfe, though I fairness it is not anything n this story that I dislike but the fact that it foreshadows Family Affair, which I intensely dislike. In this story (which it just occurs to me has a plot parallel tp Scandal in Bohemia) Orrie Cather, one of the detectives Wolfe regularly employs when needed, is planning to marry a nice young woman named Jill Hardy, but a not-so=nice woman name Isabel Kerr, who was the paid mistress of the wealthy Avery Ballou, has been seeing Orrie on the side, claims to be pregnant by him, and wants him to marry her. She has various items of his (the most improbable being his detective license) and he asks Archie Goodwin to sneak in and get them from he apartment. When Archie goes in, he finds Isabel dead on the floor, and Orrie is promptly arrested as a material witness. There is a discussion in which Saul Panzer's (the most brilliant of Wolfe's sometime assistants) vote swings the group (Nero Wolfe, Archie, Fred Durkin (a less brilliant assistant) and Saul) to support of Orrie.
    • 4/5
      Although I have probably read at least a dozen Nero Wolfe novels, I was still in my mid-twenties the last time I read one of them. And that was a long time ago, a very long time ago. So when I started reading Death of a Doxy (written in 1966), I thought I knew pretty much what to expect from Mr. Stout. But (perhaps because this is one of the later Wolfe novels), it holds up surprisingly well and delivers a good bit more than I was expecting from it.My copy of Death of a Doxy is a 1972 seventh reprinting of the book’s original paperback edition. The little plot summary on the first page of the book captures both the basic premise of the mystery and the tone of the times:“Poor Orrie Cather. He was being held for a murder he swore he hadn’t committed. Poor Avery Ballou. He’d been paying the rent of the victim’s apartment and if anyone found out, Orried’d be free and Ballou would be suspect #1. But most of all, poor Isabel Kerr. She was so young, so beautiful, so stone-cold dead.Then, of course, there was poor Nero Wolfe. Orrie was a friend, Balllou was his client, and the real murderer was playing hard-to-get….”As for as teasers go, that’s a pretty good one. The only quibble I have with it, and it’s a minor one, is that Ballou only even became a provisional client of Wolfe’s very near the end of the book – and only if taking him own did not at all interfere with Wolfe’s determination to clear Orrie Cather’s name with the police. But this little book (155 pages) is much more complicated than the blurb makes it sound.Once again, the rather large and set-in-his-ways Nero Wolfe stays at home and dispatches his minions, led by right-hand man Archie Goodwin, to do all the leg work and to haul witnesses and suspects back to the Wolfe residence on New York’s 35th street as required to move the investigation along. This time, however, Wolfe is one minion short because Mr. Cather spends the entire novel in police custody. But Wolfe and the available boys are still well up to their task.Isabel Kerr was a doxy, a kept woman, and there is no way she was able to pay the $300 monthly rent of the luxury apartment in which the body of this ex-showgirl was found. All the police have to work with is Isabel’s diary, but there is evidently enough in it to tell them that she was pressuring Wolfe’s friend into marrying her and not his fiancé – the woman he preferred to marry. Orrie Cather, however, is not a man with enough money to be the Isabel’s sugar daddy - and that man’s life would be ruined if he were somehow connected to the dead woman. Was he desperate enough, or angry enough, to be her killer?Now it’s up to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin to figure out a way to solve the murder that will earn them the conditional $50,000 fee they have been promised. Depending on how it all works out, Death of a Doxy is a case that Wolfe will solve for free or for $50,000 – and that’s a heck of a big difference in 1966.
    • 4/5
      This was a Wolfe novel I had never heard of—luckily it was available for the Nook so I could get it immediately. It was enjoyable, especially because in this one the misogynist Wolfe actually meets a woman to whom he gives grudging respect .
    • 3/5
      Convoluted. Yes, convoluted. Or maybe this is just a book where Nero Wolfe's brain is working so much faster than mine, that I totally lose track of what was going on. I haven't read enough Stout to say that this is the book where Orrie first started to go bad, but from what I have read that is my understanding; it's nice that a series as long as this one still has a credible story arc.But there were quite a few details in this one that I had trouble buying into as we went along. Maybe the villain would really have been foolish enough to choose a pseudonym that could be linked back to him, but the link was subtle enough that I don't think even Nero Wolfe could realistically have picked it up. But we have our usual fun with Archie's wisecracks and womanizing, and Wolfe's ability to handle the people in his office. It's not the best, nor the worst Wolfe story. As good as any I suppose.
    • 4/5
      This is another case in the Rex Stout’s fantastic mystery series featuring Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. Breaking one of his cardinal rules of not accepting a case when he doesn’t have a paying client, Wolfe takes on the case of a murdered mistress found dead in her flat because Orrie Cather, one of Wolfe’s action men, is under suspicion (and under arrest). There are plenty of suspicious characters in the picture, from the mystery lover who paid her bills to her condemning, “respectable” sister. Yet, when signs begin to point in one direction, an opportunity for a paying client arises, making the mystery a harder knot to untangle if Wolfe wants to receive his fee. One reason I really like Rex Stout’s books is the characters. Nero Wolfe is a larger-than-life misogynistic genius who can only function on a schedule or risk getting indigestion from getting upset at meals. Archie Goodwin is the wise-cracking optimist who retains his good humor in all situations. In Death of a Doxy, the minor characters also get a chance to shine: Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin and Inspector Cramer are all in good form. If you’ve read Rex Stout, you’ll like Death of a Doxy; if you’re thinking about reading one, this is as good a place to start as any.
    • 5/5
      Death of a Doxy is as delightful a read as any of Sout's other Nero Wolf mysteries. Wolf reads books in all of the stories. In Death of a Doxy he is reading [Invitation to an Inquest] by Walter and Miriam Schneir. Those authors re-examined all the evidence presented at the Rosenberg trial and concluded that the Rosenbergs were innocent of the crime. At the same time, Wolf has been re-examining the murder of Richard II's two nephews. For centuries Richard II was held responsible for their deaths, but historians in the 20th century began questioning that. Josephine Tey in [Daughter of Time] presented a popularized version of the new position. Wolf throws out his copy of More's [Utopia] because of More's role in framing Richard II.Later in the story Wolf picks up [The Jungle Book] by Rudyard Kipling. And he also consults the [Encyclopedia Britannica].Naturally, this story deals with someone falsely accused; Wolf's occasional helper Orrie Cather.
    • 5/5
      Orrie's in trouble. The crack in his character begins.