Double for Death (T. Fox) (original 1939; edition 1964)

by Rex Stout

Series: Tecumseh Fox (1)

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Tecumseh Fox has a sharp eye for solving murders--but this time he's seeing double. Fox has been hired by the headstrong niece of a man charged in the shooting of wealthy financier Ridley Thorpe. The problem is that there are two gorgeous suspects, two powerful motives, two hotheaded suitors, and two murder weapons. And to top it off, Ridley Thorpe, or someone claiming to be him, is not only alive and well but has an airtight alibit for the night of the shooting. Only one thing is certain: Fox doesn't have long to put two and two together before the real killer strikes again.… (more)

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Title:	Double for Death (T. Fox)
Authors:	Rex Stout
Info:	Pyramid Books (1964), Mass Market Paperback
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Double for Death by Rex Stout (1939)

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laplantelibrary | Apr 9, 2022 |

Stout created the Tecumseh Fox series. I think this was before Nero Wolfe. A rich man, Ridley Thorpe, is killed and a man, Alan Grant, and his niece Nancy are suspected. Nancy climbs out of a window of police headquarters and gets to Fox's home to ask for home. He figures out that Thorpe wasn't dead. He had someone double for him and go to an isolated home while the real Ridley spent time with his mistress. He must manage a way to get Thorpe to return to life without revealing why he was gone. However, then someone kills the real Thorpe with Fox's gun. It is up to Fox to solve this problem. I like Wolfe better but this was okay.

taurus27 | Aug 1, 2016 |

Mediocre. Like pretty much all of Stout's non-Nero Wolfe novels. It brings home once more that Stout's great and enduring success is due almost entirely to one inspired creation -- the narrative voice of Archie Goodwin.

sonofcarc | Oct 27, 2011 |

Lesser work. Easy-to-solve mysteries. Tec Fox seems awkward, unconvincing. (

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tzelman | Mar 9, 2008 |

I like this, not as well as the Nero Wolfe series, but as well as lots of other mysteries. (

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MrsLee | Apr 2, 2007 |

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
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Brown, Rita Mae	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Double for Death

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1939

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A man, with brown cheeks smoothly shaven and wearing a clean denim shirt because it was Monday morning, chaperoning his herd of Jersseys across the paved road from the barn side to the pasture side, saw a car coming and cussed.

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This book was the first book of the Tecumseh Fox series, and it was originally published in 1939 in hardcover by Farrar & Rinehart.

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Tecumseh Fox has a sharp eye for solving murders--but this time he's seeing double. Fox has been hired by the headstrong niece of a man charged in the shooting of wealthy financier Ridley Thorpe. The problem is that there are two gorgeous suspects, two powerful motives, two hotheaded suitors, and two murder weapons. And to top it off, Ridley Thorpe, or someone claiming to be him, is not only alive and well but has an airtight alibit for the night of the shooting. Only one thing is certain: Fox doesn't have long to put two and two together before the real killer strikes again.

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