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Bezig met laden... Tweemaal Vermoord (1940)door Rex Stout
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 4/9/22 I am more familiar with the Archie and Nero Wolf series. Tecumseh Fox is a new character for me. There are only 3 books with this character in it. He travels in the same area as Nero Wolfe, New York, but the two never seem to know of each other. Amy Duncan is working as a private detective. Her case is to find out who has been putting quinine into the products of Tingley's Titbits. It is costing the company business and income. It wouldn't be difficult except the owner is her uncle and he doesn't feel a woman can do the job. When Amy is called to her uncle's office, and wakes up on the floor next to her brutally murdered uncle she finds herself a prime suspect. Having me Fox earlier, she calls on him to help her solve the case of the murder and the poisoning. What starts out looking simple turns complicate when Fox finds that there are a number of possible suspects among the company and outsiders who are looking to buy the company. Set in the fourties, it has that feel, but Fox is not the tough talking tec usually associated with this era. He does know his way around and is well known and pretty well respected by the police. It is an enjoyable read, and I am curious about the other two books. Hope I can find them sometime. The hopeful cover blurb of this edition says "as great as Nero Wolfe." The honest answer is no, but then few if any other fictional detectives are that great. Stout without Nero and Archie is a competent writer and Fox is a competent detective, but completely conventional and colorless compared to the Nero/Archie team. The storyline, about the (non-fatal) poisoning of Tingley's TIdbits, was actually used as a Nero/Archie plot in a draft published after Stout's death, and I frankly prefer that version. The opening, in which Nero bites into the bad tidbits and sprays the table with them in reaction to the taste, is a classic. Tecumseh Fox Este detective particular americano, saído da imaginação de Rex Stout, apesar da estranha sonoridade do seu nome, nega qualquer ligação de ascendência com as tribos nativas da América do Norte. Vive numa quinta, chamada Zoológico, a cerca de 80 km de Nova Iorque, tendo ao seu serviço alguns ex-marginais que ele livrou de problemas com a justiça. O seu braço direito na quinta, e não só, chama-se Dan Pavey, e Fox indica-o como sendo o seu vice-presidente. A parte doméstica da quinta é gerida por Mrs. Trimble, a governanta. Tecumseh Fox acumula o trabalho de detective com o trabalho na quinta, onde executa todo o tipo de tarefas: podar, sulfatar, construir estufas, etc. Além de perceber de trabalhos agrícolas também sabe tocar guitarra. Conhece-se muito pouco sobre a sua constituição física, a não ser pelas abundantes referências aos seus penetrantes olhos castanhos, que incomodam quem se vê observado por eles, e que tem 76 quilos. No primeiro caso em que Tecumseh Fox surge, tem bastantes atritos com as forças policiais, que apenas se atenuam com a entrada em cena do inspector Damon, personagem que volta a surgir nos dois casos seguintes, e com quem já consegue manter uma relação de cooperação e cordialidade. Os três casos de Tecumseh Fox decorrem entre 1939 e 1941, não havendo notícias suas depois dessa data. (Desconhece-se se a entrada dos EUA na 2ª guerra mundial, terá tido alguma influência nesse desaparecimento!!!). Em “ O detective imperfeito”, cruza-se com Doll Bonner, uma outra detective criada por Rex Stout. Há ainda uma referência a um tal tenente Rowcliff, que talvez seja o mesmo que passa a vida a implicar com Archie Goodwin, o secretário de Nero Wolfe. Eis a lista das obras em que este detective surge, e a respectiva edição em português na colecção Vampiro. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Someone has been doctoring the gourmet appetizers at family-run Tingley's Titbits. And when old man Tingley meets a sudden end, suspicion falls on a gorgeous young detective whose fingerprints are on the knife. Moved by feminine beauty and professional courtesy, Tecumseh Fox takes the case, only to find he's got more on his plate than he bargained for. Suddenly he has enough suspects to fill a fair-sized cocktail party. On the menu are corporate pirates, crackpot economics, a license plate that doesn't exist, and a phone conversation with a dead man. Now it's up to Fox to provide the missing ingredient in this smorgasbord of absurdity: a cold-blooded killer. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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