Fortune Favors the Dead Book Reviews

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Fortune favors the reader... Unexpectedly, remarkably well-written, with fascinating, unique characters and realistic dialogue. Good pace to the story and a fortuitous lack of gimmicks in the style and construction. Bravo!

Ripoff of Nero Wolfe characters. Female versions of Archie and Nero. And that bothers me. I love Rex Stout’s characters and don’t like seeing them renamed and dressed in female clothing.

An Excellent Way to Start a Series. Period fiction frequently choses to gloss over historical ugliness for the sake of pulpy fun, or over-embellish the ugliness to the point where nothing of beauty can exist for the sake of “grittiness”. Rare does a work feel like it strikes a balance between the two. Fortune Favors the Dead is one of those rare pieces. The balance is skewed to fun; with well-realized characters spouting engaging dialogue that are a joy to walk and run and stumble along with throughout New York City the 1940s. But it doesn’t shy away from the grimier sides of the often-called “Golden Era”; grime that was much worse if you weren’t male, white, and straight. The narrator is sarcastic without being obnoxious, witty without being overly-cliche, affected by a traumatic past without drowning in self-pity; and which makes her seem all the more real as she leads the readers on an improbable but perfectly believable mystery. Had this been the only book in series, it would have been a gem of a stand-alone story. Thankfully for me, the second I completed it I was able to immediately purchase the next one.

Literate, Astonishing, and Original. Cannot praise this work highly enough. Main characters Pentecost and Parker grab one and don’t let go. One brilliant and old-fashionedly moral. The other a fascinating mixture - “smart as a whip,” as the saying goes, and with a highly unusual background. Having been the former, I learned a lot from the latter. Too many plot twists to count.

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