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Death of a Doxy
Death of a Doxy is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by Viking Press in 1966.
Plot introduction.
Orrie Cather, one of Wolfe's operatives, has been secretly seeing a wealthy man's kept mistress at her secret lovenest. 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,
Speaker", "Too Many Women", "Murder by the Book", "Before Midnight", "Plot It Yourself", "Too Many Clients", "The Doorbell Rang", and "Death of a Doxy", which are for me the best of all the full-length Wolfe novels.
- J. Kenneth Van Dover, "At Wolfe's Door" — Wolfe's return to the novel-length mystery is a strong one: the plot is solid and the characters — especially Phoebe