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After a heck of a week at the News-Tribune with only a few minor blunders, Fletch is finally getting married to his blushing bride, Barbara. As the small gathering of friends and family converge on the gusty bluff for the ceremony, Fletch is handed a curious envelope by a mustached stranger that contains something almost unbelievable-a letter from his supposedly dead father, inviting him and his new wife to Africa for a visit. More than just a little curious, Fletch convinces the skeptical show more Barbara to forgo the skiing adventure they had planned to find the father he's never known. But upon their arrival in Nairobi, just as the hunt begins for the elusive Fletch Senior, a murder threatens to derail the trip before they even leave the airport. show less

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Een beetje een atypische Fletch - voor zover wij dat al kunnen beoordelen - met een hoofdrol voor het Afrikaans continent (Kenia).
McDonald blijft een vlot en aangenaam verteller, maar in dit boek neemt hij meer tijd en ruimte voor beschouwingen. Fletch, too wordt zo een reisverslag over een trip naar Kenia, en een - weliswaar licht - filosofisch boekje over het verschil tussen Westerse en Afrikaanse levensvisie.
In die mix vinden we nog altijd de heerlijke Irwin Fletcher, journalist met spitse tong, eigenzinnig karakter en heerlijke humor. Het boek wordt door meer dankbare karakters bevolkt, kent weer spitse dialogen en ditmaal een wat dunnere, maar toch goed uitgewerkte plot. Blijft heerlijk leesvoer tussendoor!
I really enjoyed this selection from the series. This, and Fletch Won, are prequels that were written after the rest of the series. When I learned that, I stopped where I was in the series and picked these up to read. This one might be my favorite, though it does feel a bit different from the others.
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"Fletch, Too" is the sequel to "Fletch Won." It picks up the story of Fletch's wedding just as "Fletch Won" leaves off. The titles of these two books give away where they fit in the Fletch universe. Chronologically, Fletch Won (1) and Fletch, Too (2) are books 1 and 2 of the series.

It begins with a crazy wedding ceremony on a bluff in the rain, takes off as Fletch and his bride Barbara change horses in midstream at the airport en route to their honeymoon and end up in Nairobi, Kenya, with skis, poles, and only ski clothing. An invitation from a long-thought dead father will do that. The goofiness and the twisted explanations for their gear and clothing are hilarious. But, after that it sort of devolves to a plot-less meandering as so show more many of these books do. show less
a prequel, Fletch's 1st honeymoon becomes a search for his long dead father

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Gregory Mcdonald was educated at Harvard University and, at the same time, started up an international yacht trouble-shooting business to help pay his way through college. In 1964, Mcdonald was hired at the Boston Globe. In his seven years with them, he worked as a writer for the Sunday Magazine, a critic, the Arts and Humanities Editor, a show more critic-at-large columnist and a member of the Editorial Board. He was hired by publisher Davis Taylor to make the Globe more competitive. With Mcdonald, the readership soared but advertisers pulled out, in part because he wrote openly against the Vietnam War, one of the first journalists ever to do so, and for arguing for Civil, Women's and Gay Rights. It was said that a group of fellow employees beat him up in the Globe parking lot for the stance he took in a controversial time period. Mcdonald has written many mysteries including the Fletch, Flynn, Son of Fletch and Skylar series. Some of the titles included in those series are Exits and Entrances, A World Too Wide, and Safekeeping. His novel The Brave was elected Trophees 813 Best Foreign Novel 1997 in France. Mcdonald has twice been the winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, a recipient of humanitarian and peoples rights awards and is the past president of the Mystery Writers of America. He was suffering from cancer when he died on September 7, 2008 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Irwin Maurice Fletcher
Important places
Nairobi, Kenya
First words
What astounded Fletch was that the letter written to him was signed Fletch.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)What astounded Fletch was that the letter written to him was signed Fletch.

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3563 .A278 .F513Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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