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    A Right to Die

    Written by Rex Stout

    Narrated by Michael Prichard

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    About this audiobook

    When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears.



    Susan Brooke has everything going for her.  Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one did.



    Susan came to New York to find love and fulfillment, and ended up dead on a tenement floor. The police say her black fiance did it, but Wolfe has other ideas.  Before he's done, he'll prove that good intentions and bad deeds often go hand in hand and that the highest ideals can sometimes have the deadliest consequences.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 2, 2007
    ISBN9781415937662
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    A Right to Die
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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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    • 4/5
      Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories are always enjoyable for so many reasons. I love Archie and the interactions he has with Nero, clients and suspects. The stories are quick and easy but still have me guessing up until close to the end.

      In this installment Nero receives a visit from Mr. Whipple, an African American Anthropology Professor who is worried about his son. Nero owes Mr. A Whipple a favor and he's calling it in. Mr. Whipple's son is engaged to a white woman and Mr. Whipple thinks there must be something wrong with her.

      Of course she does before any dirt can be dug-up and Nero must know find-out who did it so Mr. Whipple's son isn't convicted of her murder.

      This is not a book for those who find race issues and the treatment of African Americans offensive. The N___ word is used many times but I think in this case and in the era it was written was necessary to show the unreasonable hatred people in these times had. I don't think we would understand the irrational and unjustified hatred one person could have if we used modern language. It astounds me that people can hate so easily and for nothing but the skin color or accent a person might have.
    • 3/5
      This is not one of my favorite Nero Wolfe stories. There are some of his later ones that seem to me to be self-consciously trying to be involved with issues of the day, which makes me uncomfortable. Realistically., Stout included reference to current issues since the 1930s, but the 1960s was the first period I was old enough to be really aware of these issues.n this story, Paul Whipple, who in the 1930s as a young black college student/waiter had been a key witness in Too Many Cooks (one of my favorite stories) is now a middle-aged professor at Columbia (it that athough Wolfe and Goodwin and their regular circle never age, other character s do. Now his son is active in the civil rights movement and talking of marrying a white young woman also active ni his gorup (the imaginary Rights of Citizens Committee). The older Whipple believes she must have a flaw and asks Wolfe to find it. He has hardly begin when the woman is murdered and the younger Whipple becomes the prime suspect. Naturally Wolfe investigayes.
    • 3/5
      This follow-up to one of Rex Stout's earliest and most popular Nero Wolfe mysteries, "Too Many Cooks," is an intriguing and disturbing impression of race relations in New York society during the Civil Rights era. If you seek an "issues" novel for teens, choose "Too Many Cooks" for a deft, subtle, multi-faceted look at race relations from many angles, wrapped up in a classic whodunit.
    • 4/5
      Nero Wolfe solves the murder of a woman engaged to a black person while both were active in the civil rights movement in New York. Excellent read - good verbiage from our favorite private investigator (not "private eye"!).
    • 4/5
      In an earlier novella (from Three for the Chair) Wolfe and Archie are stuck in the Adirondacks until Wolfe can solve a murder. In order to do that he must get a piece of information from one of the black servants and he delivers a speech to them that does convinces a young black boy he should share his information with Wolfe. That boy in snow a professor at a college and he comes to Wolfe to convince him to find some “dirt” on the white girl his son plans to marry. He convinces Wolfe to take a job that ordinarily he would never consider by quoting verbatim the speech Wolfe had delivered those many years ago.This novel was to be published in 1964, the year the Civil Rights Act was passed and his publisher was considering not publishing it because of it's “controversial” nature. Stout threatened to go to another publisher so naturally it was published by his long-time publisher and ended up being one of his best selling novels.
    • 3/5
      When a character from Nero Wolfe's past turns up and asks Wolfe to disentangle his son from an interracial relationship, Wolfe and Archie end up investigating the young woman's murder. Not one of the better Nero Wolfe books, but Wolfe and Archie are always fun.
    • 3/5
      Perhaps the best 39th book in a series that I have ever read. Published in 1964, this book tackles some tough interracial issues that are still unsolved today, and it wasn't twenty years ago that I was working with folks who would have been ready to go after an interracial couple with a shotgun. Nero Wolfe isn't prejudiced, but of course the fact of color - or gender, for that matter - in 1964 couldn't be ignored, and when the murderer is eventually unmasked the motive rings true without getting preachy about it. Archie Goodwin is always fun to read about, and the action is nonstop as it should be, but the clue that eventually leads to the denouement seems a little unlikely to me. Still, one has to make allowances for book #39 - anything that will be really logical will have already been done. But reading Rex Stout is like eating potato chips - you can't stop after just one.
    • 5/5
      This is a good follow up story to Too Many Cooks. I like it very much.