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Three Doors to Death

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Three Doors to Death	comment	Rex Stout's fourth collection of Nero Wolfe novellas, published in 1950."Man Alive" opens with clothing designer and model Cynthia Nieder hiring Wolfe to investigate why she saw her uncle Paul alive at one of her fashion shows, when Paul committed suicide a year before. While Archie fails to see Paul at the next show, Cynthia does shortly afterward - dead in his office, struck on the head and stabbed repeatedly in the face with a window pole. Investigation of the Daumery & Nieder firm reveals that Paul is not the only recently-deceased founder of the firm, as Jean Daumery fell off a fishing boat weeks before, while it is unclear if or how anyone knew that Paul Nieder was actually alive. It takes forgery and coercion for Wolfe to reveal the murderer's location and unmask the culprit."Omit Flowers" sees Marko Vukcic request a favor from Wolfe: Virgil Pompa, a chef who traded in his integrity to work for the restaurant chain AMBROSIA, has been arrested for stabbing new AMBROSIA head Floyd Britten to death, and Vukcic knows Pompa would not stab a man In the Back. Using the name of Britten's mistress Julie Irving to gain access to the Britten household, Archie finds Britten's wife near death from a stab wound and has her brought to the brownstone. With a family willing to lie for each other, Wolfe must find the truth behind obfuscation to clear a man who was once a great chef.Finally, in "Door to Death," Wolfe travels to Westchester County in an attempt to hire Andy Krasicki, gardener for the household of Joseph Pitcairn, as a replacement for the absent Theodore Horstmann. While they find Krasicki, they also find Dini Lauer, Krasicki's newly betrothed, gassed to death in the greenhouse. When the uncooperative Westchester police lock in on Krasicki as the murderer and take him away, Wolfe's desperation for a gardener leads him, Archie, and Saul on a hike through the woods behind the Pitcairn estate in an attempt to steal a confession out of the uncooperative Pitcairns.A Nero Wolfe Mystery adapted "Door to Death" during its first season.
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Three Doors to Death / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: Both the Brittens and the Pitcairns, with children dependent on and willing to lie for their parents. Both families also contain a murderer among their midst.
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Three Doors to Death / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Floyd Britten was stabbed from behind while sitting at a table. This is enough to convince Marko Vukcic of Virgil Pompa's innocence, as Pompa would never stab a man like a coward.
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Three Doors to Death / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Wolfe starts with four suspects in ''Man Alive": Bernard Daumery, Polly Zarella, Henry Demarest, and Ward Roper. Demarest is the first one Wolfe asks for an alibi, and his reply reveals that all four suspects have an airtight alibi and the killer is someone else.
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Three Doors to Death / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Andy's assistant Gus, who is eager to see Andy exonerated, serves as Wolfe and Archie's source of information about the dirty secrets of the Pitcairn family and Dini Lauer.
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Three Doors to Death / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Based on his niece's descriptions, Paul Nieder's attraction to his business partner's wife is obvious to everyone around them.
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Three Doors to Death / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Wolfe works out one of the murderers this way. In "Omit Flowers", on discovering that her children have come to confront her over fears that she is planning to exclude them from the family wealth in favour of her new husband Floyd Britten, Mrs Britten is clearly stunned and attempts to reassure them that she would never be so cruel as to cut them out of her fortune. Since everything else he learned about her character clearly indicates that she was both intensely loyal and generous to her husband and would normally just bully and dominate her children in such a conflict, the fact that she was so conciliatory clearly suggests that she was both shaken by something and that her husband was less high in her priorities than he otherwise would have been. Almost as if she already knew he was dead...
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Three Doors to Death / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Done by Paul Nieder, suspecting that his life was in danger, and by Jean Daumery, who wanted him dead.
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