The most engaging new detective of the year — Tecumseh Fox! Meet him in a neatly dovetailed mystery which is right up to the unbeatable standard of Rex Stout’s best. Two shots in the dark and a silent figure sprawled on the floor of Ridley Thorpe’s bungalow hideaway start thins mystery of a millionaire’s death in which passion spin the plot through he lanes and highways of New York’s suburbia. You will be hearing a lot more about Tecumseh Fox in the future, so you will do well to make his acquaintance right now. Maybe you will agree with the local police officials in the story who think the name most appropriate to the man

The old-fashioned firm of Tingley’s Titbits had built up over a number of years a good and solid reputation, which was now in danger of being ruined. Indignant customers were returning jars of liver paté, sandwich spread, spiced anchovies and other such delicacies. Analysis showed that the contents had been adulterated with quinine. Arthur Tingley, the proprietor, was at his wits’ end. It was not only bad for business, it looked like being fatal. And it was... for Arthur. Here is a fine new murder story by that most entertaining of all detective writers, Rex Stout, featuring one of his famous characters, Tecumseh Fox, in the rôle of detective

In this thrilling, ingeniously plotted mystery, Rex Stout relates another adventure of the detective he introduced in DOUBLE FOR DEATH. Tecumseh Fox lives in a big place out near Brewster, New York, and he grows things there. But he’s interested in other things besides detecting and gardening so he gave some money toward the purchase of a fine violin for a promising young violinist named Jan Tusar. Fox was in the audience the night of Tusar’s debut and, although he didn’t know much about music, it didn’t seem to him that the performance was much good