The Mexican Tree Duck vs The Wrong Case: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Montana, Missing persons, Private investigators, Fiction
The Mexican Tree Duck
“When the 3:12 through freight to Spokane hit the East Meriwether crossing, the engineer touched his horn and released a long, mournful wail into the wet, snowy air of our second early fall storm in western Montana.”
C.W. Sughrue is at it again, and this time he's looking for a beautiful, kidnapped woman named Sarita Cisneros Pines. No one can find her -- not her well-connected Republican husband, not the FBI, not even a group of…
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The Wrong Case
Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of Meriwether, in the pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Wrong Case has the widest readership — 1951 ratings behind its score.
- The Wrong Case runs the darker storyline; The Mexican Tree Duck stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Mexican Tree Duck | The Wrong Case | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.0 (1951) |
| Hardcover | 3.4 (5) | 3.8 (4) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (21) | 4.0 (17) |
Reception
| The Mexican Tree Duck | The Wrong Case | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 21 | 1951 |
| Editions | 2 | 1 |
| Citations | — | 3 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 1515 |
| Reading it now | — | 71 |
| Written reviews | — | 148 |
| Pages | 251 | 272 |