Death of a doxy

Resource Information

The work Death of a doxy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

Death of a doxy

Statement of responsibility

Rex Stout

Creator

• Stout, Rex, 1886-1975

Contributor

• Prichard, Michael, (Michael J)

Subject

• Fiction
• Mystery fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• New York (State) -- New York
• Private investigators
• Private investigators -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Wolfe, Nero (Fictitious character)
• Wolfe, Nero (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Audiobooks

Genre

• Fiction
• Mystery fiction
• Audiobooks

Language

eng

Summary

The story opens with Archie discovering a "honey-haired corpse" lying on the floor of her plush bedroom with a crushed skull. Archie determines that she is a doxy*--a fact that is key to the murder, its motivation, and perpetrator. As the characters reveal their relationships to the doxy, Wolfe is challenged to make deductions from a total lack of evidence. As they wrap up the case, Wolfe pronounces that Archie's role was "brilliant," a highly unusual accolade from a highly eccentric boss. * A doxy = a kept woman or a prostitute or a paramour = a lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship

Member of

• Nero Wolfe series, 42

Accompanying matter

libretto or text

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

813/.52

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

LC call number

PS3537.T733

LC item number

D43 2007ab

Literary text for sound recordings

sounds

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by Michael Prichard

Series statement

Nero Wolfe series

Series volume

42

Target audience

general

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable