The Blue Ice vs The Quick Red Fox: Which Should You Read?
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The Blue Ice
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Ten years after George Farnell's disappearance, two lines of poetry and a lump of mineral ore are found. It's enough to send mineral expert Bill Gansert to Norway. But word of his findings has leaked out and Gansert…
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The Quick Red Fox
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The Quick Red Fox (1964) is the fourth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. In it, McGee is hired to aid a fictitious Hollywood star named Lysa Dean who is being blackmailed with revealing photographs.
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The verdict
- Readers rate The Quick Red Fox highest: The Quick Red Fox 4.0 · The Blue Ice 3.8.
- The Blue Ice has the widest readership — 449 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| The Blue Ice | The Quick Red Fox | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (449) | — |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (3) | 3.8 (14) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (248) |
Reception
| The Blue Ice | The Quick Red Fox | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 449 | 248 |
| Editions | 30 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 179 | — |
| Reading it now | 59 | — |
| Written reviews | 31 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 46 | 191 |
| Pages | 246 | — |
Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: The Blue Ice or The Quick Red Fox?
The Quick Red Fox has the higher combined reader rating across sources (The Quick Red Fox 4.0/5, The Blue Ice 3.8/5).