Bad For Business – A Tecumseh Fox Mystery – April 1968

Bad For Business – A Tecumseh Fox Mystery

A PYRAMID BOOK – published by arrangement with the author

PRINTING HISTORY – Farrar & Rinehart edition published 1940
Pyramid edition published September 1965

Copyright, 1940, 1968 by Rex Stout

Rear Cover Text:

Poison in the Pate

Someone was doctoring cans of Tingley’s Tidbits right in the factory. The doses weren’t lethal to the customers – but they would be to Tingley’s reputation if the sabotage didn’t stop. It looked like a case of cutthroat competition when private detective Tecumseh Fox took on the job –

– and then a throat was really cut!

With his own client the prime suspect, Fox hunts a killer through a maze of murder, scandal and blackmail.

“An exciting bout of deduction with one of Nero Wolfe’s closest rivals on the job. What more could you ask?” – Will Cuppy, The New York Herold Tribune

Cover Design: Lembit Rauk

Cover Illustration: Len Goldberg

Inside Cover Text:

The Defective Detective

– that’s what private investigator Amy Duncan felt like after she’d botched a romance… bungled her first important assignment… and been fired in disgrace.

Then Amy found a body – and also found herself neatly framed for murder. And the one man who could save her was the rival detective who’d helper land her in the mess…

… Tecumseh Fox.

Bad For Business – Tecumseh Fox – June 1982

Bad For Business – Tecumseh Fox

A Bantam Book Printed June 1982 – 1st printing

Rear Cover:

IN THE RED

Ann Duncan was a beautiful working girl who had a strong attachment to her job, an affection for her boss, and a frightening way of attracting trouble. Private investigator Tecumsch Fox met her when she literally walked into the bumper of his car. She promptly sped him off into the most puzzling case of Fox’s brilliant career. It all involved her family’s food enterprise called Tingley’s Tidbits. The firm was in an uproar because their appetizers were suddenly very unappetizing. This, of course, was bad for business. Profits dropped, but it was murder that kept them in the red.

Inside Cover:

BAD FOR BUSINESS

The agony was so dull that it was not agony. For some moments Amy was still not in any real sense a live creature, but mearly an incoherent and distant buzz of nerve impulses. Then something happened; namely, her eyes opened; but she hadn’t quite reached the level of knowing it. Soon, though, she did; she groaned adn made a mighty effort to lift herself with her arm as a lever; but her hand slipped and she was flat again just as enough consciousness returned for her to know that what her hand had slipped in was a pool of blood, and the object there on the floor an arm’s length away was the face and throat of Uncle Arthur…

Double for Death – A Tecumseh Fox Mystery – June 1964

Double for Death – A Tecumseh Fox Mystery

A PYRAMID BOOK – published by arrangement with the author

PRINTING HISTORY – Farrar & Rinehart edition published 1939
Pyramid edition published June 1964

Copyright, 1939 by Rex Stout

Rear Cover Text:

DOUBLE TROUBLE

Fox could handle a murder case, all right – that was his job. But the Ridley Thorpe killing looked like too much of one private detective – there were two of everything:

TWO Ridley Thorpes – and one not even dead!
TWO beautiful suspects
TWO very good motives
TWO hot-headed suitors
TWO murder weapons
… and finally
TWO murders!

It’s double trouble for Tecumseh Fox – and double enjoyment for readers, in one of Rex Stout’s most ingenious and thrilling mysteries!

Cover: Paul Bacon Studio

Inside Cover Text:

THE GUN

That had killed Thorpe lay on the desk.
The D. A. and the state cop waited for Fox to speak.
It was going to be tough. Fox’s client was dead…

…killed by Fox’s own gun!

The Broken Vase – A Tecumseh Fox Mystery – March 1968

The Broken Vase - A Tecumseh Fox Mystery - March 1968 - Front Cover

The Broken Vase - A Tecumseh Fox Mystery - March 1968 - Rear Cover

The Broken Vase – A Tecumseh Fox Mystery

A PYRAMID BOOK – published by arrangement with the author

PRINTING HISTORY – Farrar & Rinehart edition published 1941
Pyramid edition published March 1965
Second Printing March 1968

Copyright, 1941 by Rex Stout

Rear Cover Text:

Suicide or Murder

Jan Tusar walked off the Carnegie Hall stage, put down his violin, wrote a note, and put a bullet through his head – in front of two witnesses.

A clear case of suicide, the cops said – but detective Tecumseh Fox didn’t go for the easy answer.

Tusar was murdered, Fox claimed – and uncovered the diabolical trick that proved it. The next move was up to the killer – and it came fast.

The worlds of music and murder meet in this fast-paced adventure of Rex Stout’s sardonic sleuth.

Cover Design: Lembit Rauk
Cover Illustration: Len Goldberg

Inside Cover Text:

POISON ON PARK AVENUE

Someone drove Jan Tusar to kill himself. Detective Tecumseh Fox had all the suspects on hand – and no leads. Park Avenue playboy Perry Dunham knew more than he was telling, but Fox knew he could break Dunham –

– until someone slipped him a poisoned highball in front of eight witnesses!

Rex Stout Book Index

Books by Rex Stout

Nero Wolfe Books and Stories

• 1934 Fer-de-Lance
• 1935 The League of Frightened Men
• 1936 The Rubber Band
• 1937 The Red Box
• 1938 Too Many Cooks
• 1939 Some Buried Caesar
• 1940 Over My Dead Body
• 1940 Where There’s a Will
• 1940 Bitter End (First published in Nov 1940 American Magazine, 1st Book Pub 1977 in Corsage, 2nd Book Pub 1985 in Death Times Three)
• 1942 Black Orchids
  • Black Orchids
  • Cordially Invited to Meet Death
• 1944 Not Quite Dead Enough
  • Not Quite Dead Enough
  • Booby Trap
• 1946 The Silent Speaker
• 1947 Too Many Women
• 1948 And Be a Villain
• 1949 Trouble in Triplicate
  • Before I Die
  • Help Wanted, Male
  • Instead of Evidence
• 1949 The Second Confession
• 1950 Three Doors to Death
  • Man Alive
  • Omit Flowers
  • Door to Death
• 1950 In The Best Families
• 1950 Curtains for Three
  • The Gun with Wings
  • Bullet for One
  • Disguise for Murder
• 1951 Murder by The Book
• 1952 Prisoner’s Base
• 1952 Triple Jeopardy
  • Home to Roost
  • The Cop Killer
  • The Squirt and The Monkey
• 1953 The Golden Spiders
• 1954 Three Men Out
  • Invitation to Murder
  • The Zero Clue
  • This Won’t Kill You
• 1954 The Black Mountain
• 1955 Before Midnight
• 1956 Three Witnesses
  • The Next Witness
  • When a Man Murders
  • Die Like a Dog
• l956 Might as Well Be Dead
• 1957 Three for The Chair
  • A Window for Death
  • Immune to Murder
  • Too Many Detectives
• 1957 If Death Ever Slept
• 1958 Frame-Up for Murder (in Saturday Evening Post – 1st Book Pub 1985 in Death Times Three)
• 1958 And Four to Go
  • Christmas Party
  • Easter Parade
  • Fourth of July Picnic
  • Murder is No Joke
• 1958 Champagne for One
• 1959 Plot It Yourself
• 1960 Too Many Clients
• 1960 Three at Wolfe’s Door
  • Poison a La Carte
  • Method Three for Murder
  • The Rodeo Murder
• 1961 The Final Deduction
• 1961 Gambit
• 1962 Homicide Trinity
  • Eeny Meeny Murder Mo
  • Death of a Demon
  • Counterfeit for Murder (revised version of 1961 story The Counterfeiter’s Knife from the Saturday Evening Post)
• 1963 The Mother Hunt
• 1963 Why Nero Wolfe Likes Orchids by Archie Goodwin (Life Magazine, 1st Book Pub 1977 Corsage)
• 1964 Trio for Blunt Instruments
  • Kill Now-Pay Later
  • Murder Is Corny
  • Blood Will Tell
• 1964 A Right to Die
• 1965 The Doorbell Rang
• 1966 Death of a Doxy
• 1968 The Father Hunt
• 1969 Death of a Dude
• 1973 Please Pass The Guilt
• 1975 A Family Affair
• 1977 Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe
  • Bitter End (1st book Pub)
  • Why Nero Wolfe Likes Orchids (1st Book Pub)
  • An Informal Interview w/Rex Stout conducted April 1973 (1st Pub)
• 1985 Death Times Three
  • Bitter End (reprint, 1st book appearance in 1977 in Corsage)
  • Frame-Up for Murder(1st Book Pub)
  • Assault on a Brownstone (reprint, first book appearance 1962 as Counterfeit for Murder in Homicide Trinity)

Other Mystery Novels

• 1934 The President Vanishes
• 1937 The Hand in The Glove (Dol Bonner)
• 1939 Red Threads (Inspector Cramer)
• 1939 The Mountain Cat
• 1939 Double for Death (Tecumseh Fox)
• 1940 Bad for Business (Tecumseh Fox)
• 1940 The Sound of Murder (Alphabet Hicks)
• 1941 The Broken Vase (Tecumseh Fox)

Bad For Business – April 1968

A Tecumseh Fox mystery.

This is one Rex wrote or at least was published in 1940. He also used the same basic story line in a Nero Wolfe mystery named The Bitter End which was first published in the November 1940 issue of The American Magazine, later in a limited edition volume by the name of Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe, and then after he had died, in Death Times Three in 1985.

This cover is a second printing Pyramid edition printed in April of 1968.