Audio Book: A Right To Die
Written By Rex Stout; Read By Michael Prichard (Audio Partners)
Reviewed by Erick Mertz

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Nero Wolfe is one in a long line of detectives possessing ticklish, entertaining eccentricities. He is counted beyond the bland, among a spicy, fun breed along with television sleuths like Monk (played by Tony Shaloub) and stalwart Sherlock Holmes who aren't only entertaining on the trail of their suspects, but behind the scenes as well. On A Right To Die Wolfe is assigned to dredge up the past of an heiress who is soon found brutally beaten. Her fiancée is fingered, drawing Wolfe's gopher Archie Goodwin into an ever tightening noose of prejudice.

Author Rex Stout wrote 73 Nero Wolfe mysteries over his long career, and the A Right To Die with its tight, crafted turns is certainly a luminary amid that span. His reader on A Right To Die is another veteran Michael Prichard, whose resume includes 350 audio books with novels by Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy.

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