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Death of a Doxy is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by Viking Press in 1966. Plot introduction. "My sister was a what?" "D, O, X, Y, doxy. I happen to like that better than concubine or paramour or mistress. I don't—" I stopped because I had to, to protect my face.
Apr 14, 2002 · Death of a Doxy: Part 1: Directed by Timothy Hutton. With Timothy Hutton, Maury Chaykin, Colin Fox, Bill Smitrovich. When Archie does a private eye associate a favor and tries to recover his P.I. license from a blackmailing girlfriend, he finds the ex-showgirl bludgeoned to death.
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- Action, Drama, Mystery
- Timothy Hutton
- 2002-04-14
Death of a Doxy was the forty second instalment of the Nero Wolfe series, published in 1966 (the first in the series was published in 1934). In this outing, Wolfe and the narrator, Archie, are tasked with clearing the name of one of their detectives accused of murder.
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- Mass Market Paperback
- Rex Stout
Unable to refuse a friend in need, the great detective deigns to get the gumshoe off the hook. Little does Wolfe realize that in a matter of hours he’ll be entertaining a party of fools and lovers connected with the doxy’s death, including a mystery blackmailer, a sexy lounge singer, and a cold-blooded lady-killer.
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- Rex Stout
Orrie Cather, one of Wolfe's operatives, has been secretly seeing a wealthy man's kept mistress at her secret love nest. He is arrested when she turns up dead. Orrie is the only one of Wolfe's operatives to have the plot of two Stout books turn on his actions: Death of a Doxy and Stout's final work, A Family Affair.
Dec 8, 2022 · When he asks Archie Goodwin to break into her apartment and retrieve some incriminating paperwork, Archie agrees - but finds Isabel bludgeoned to death. Wolfe sets out to clear Orrie of the crime, and in doing so uncovers secrets about Isabel and her love life that a number of people would rather stay hidden.
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Apr 14, 2002 · With Timothy Hutton, Maury Chaykin, Colin Fox, Bill Smitrovich. With associate Orrie Cather on the hook for the murder of an ex-showgirl, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin must ally themselves with an eccentric showgirl to quash a blackmail plot and reveal the real killer.
