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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,
all the full-length Wolfe novels.
Adaptations.
Adaptations "A Nero Wolfe Mystery" (A&E Network).
An adaptation of "Death of a Doxy" opened the second season of the A&E TV series "A Nero Wolfe Mystery" (2001–2002). Directed by Timothy Hutton from a teleplay by Sharon Elizabeth Doyle, "Death of a Doxy" aired April 14, 2002, on A&E.
Timothy Hutton is Archie Goodwin; Maury Chaykin is Nero Wolfe. Other members of the cast (in credits order)