A review by hannahstohelit
The Second Confession by Rex Stout

4.5

This was very fun! At first I thought the ending came out of nowhere, but when I thought about it it was actually kind of brilliantly simple and it was the machinations to prove everything that were seemingly overly complicated and random. Unlike in the previous book, despite the fact that Occam's Razor should have applied here

the person who seems willing to take the rap for it, and who was witnessed right before he did it, probably did it

, I was completely fooled by all the red herrings, though I DID catch the significance of the Communist Party card- I just was wrong about whose it was. 

I will say, I was surprised that both of the first two Zeck trilogy books had characters with shows on W-PIT radio- and was totally expecting it to show up in the third book as well somehow. I guess just a random coincidence?