Calamity Town (Paperback)

In post-Depression America, an amateur sleuth uncovers a small town's dark side in "the best mystery produced by Ellery Queen" (The New York Times). At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death. The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie facade. He rents a house owned by the town's first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years ago and never recovered. Another is engaged to the city's rising political star, an upright man who's already boring her. And then there's Lola, the divorced, bohemian black sheep. Together, they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville, Queen sits back-waiting for the crime to come to him.

General

Imprint:	Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	July 2012
Authors:	Ellery Queen
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	286
ISBN-13:	978-1-4532-3676-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN:	1-4532-3676-7
Barcode:	9781453236765

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