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Double for Death (Crime Line)
by
Rex Stout
Sly Tecumseh Fox has a sharp eye for clues in a murder case--but this time he's seeing double. The late financier Ridley Thorpe has been shot twice. There are two gorgeous suspects, two very good motives, two hot-headed suitors, and two well-used murder weapons--then there is a second Wall Street murder. Features introduction by Rita Mae Brown.
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(first published 1939)
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I borrowed Double for Death eBook from the Toronto Public Library, virtual branch, thinking it was a Nero Wolfe mystery, not knowing Rex Stout had written another series starring a different kind of detective called "Tecumseh Fox." A bit of a surprise when I read the Introduction and discovered not Nero Wolfe. But I had been looking for a new series to try, so this was rather serendipitous!
The first big diff between a Fox mystery and a Wolfe one was point of view (POV): it's third person whereas...more
The first big diff between a Fox mystery and a Wolfe one was point of view (POV): it's third person whereas...more
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I am an unadulterated fan of Nero Wolfe and therefore Rex Stout, or perhaps the reverse is true. Double for Death is the third non-Wolfe novel of Stouts that I’ve read and I fully enjoyed it. The detective of the story is Tecumseh Fox (Stout wrote three Fox novels the others are Bad for Business and The Broken Vase). Comparing Tec to Nero and Archie is foolish, as he is neither. Tec moves in the world, unlike Nero and, unlike Archie, he is the brains of the operation.
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Jan 15, 2013
Susan
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When a millionaire businessman is killed in his remote getaway cottage, Andy Grant becomes the main suspect. His niece Nancy enlists famed, and eccentric, detective Tecumseh Fox to find the real murderer. Fox is not quite as quirky as Stout's more famous detective Nero Wolfe, but he also delights in confounding and confusing the local police and district attorney, which is all the easier when the dead man comes back to life.
This is my first Rex Stout book, and it was a great mystery. Fast-paced, easy read but with lots of twists and turns. You can just imagine one of those great old B&W movies with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn playing all these great zany characters. I don't think my local library has the other Tecumseh Fox books so I may need to try some of the Nero Wolfe books instead.
Tecumseh Fox is an interesting character and the story starts off strong enough before getting hopelessly bogged down in the tiresome questioning of the official police and then more or less fizzles out.
A very different detective for Rex Stout, Mr Fox almost appears to drift through chaos. Overall an entertaining tale, with a more explicitly romantic thread than the Wolfe stories.
The best thing about a Rex Stout book is the sparseness of his prose. He tells a great story in only a couple hundred pages. Short, sweet and action-packed!
Dec 09, 2008
Rickeclectic
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Diehard Rex Stout fans
Tecumseh Fox is main character. A lesser Rex Stout novel.
Apr 06, 2013
Eddy Allen
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Tecumseh Fox thinks that he is seeing double when financier Ridley Thorpe is shot twice, two gorgeous suspects appear, two very good motives are revealed, and two murder weapons surface.
Mar 31, 2013
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Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American crime writer, best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair).
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