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Death Valley lives up to its name when a murder draws Ellery Queen
into the strange practices of a religious cult. It's 1943, the war
is raging, and sleuthing scribe Ellery Queen wants to do his bit.
After a tortuous cross-country drive, he takes a job writing
scripts for a Hollywood propaganda house--twelve hours a day of
hack work that quickly turns his mind to jelly. After a few weeks,
he is so worn down that he can type nothing but gibberish, and he
decides to drive home. The trouble starts as soon as he reaches the
desert. His ancient roadster breaks down on the edge of Death
Valley. Wandering in search of help, he is saved by a man known as
the Teacher, who takes him to an oasis called Quenan. Here, Queen
finds a bizarre, reclusive cult that seems to have come straight
out of the ancient past. A murder has been committed in the desert,
and the Quenanites plan on delivering some Old Testament justice.
Queen is just the detective they've been waiting for.
The famous sleuth comes out of retirement to help his father hunt
down a New York City serial killer: "Marvelous . . . one of his
best" (Classic Mysteries). In the dog days of August, it is no
surprise to see New Yorkers perspire. But this summer, a killer
called the Cat gives the city a new reason to sweat. He selects his
victims seemingly at random and strangles them, then escapes
without leaving a clue. As the death toll climbs, and the press
whips the public into horrified frenzy, Gotham teeters on the edge
of anarchy. Ellery Queen, the brilliant amateur sleuth, has gone
into retirement when the Cat begins to kill. As his father, a
seasoned homicide detective, leads the investigation into the
murder, Ellery tries to avoid getting involved. But as the body
count rises, he can no longer resist the urge to hunt. The Queens
are known for their curiosity--and everyone knows how curiosity can
affect a cat.
Based on the Sherlock Holmes film: Ellery Queen matches wits with
the Baker Street sleuth to unmask Jack the Ripper. Ellery Queen is
struggling over his latest book when a friend brings him a mystery.
It is a journal, written by a Victorian doctor, of reports on the
remarkable adventures of his close friend, a brilliant detective
named Sherlock Holmes. Queen's surprise turns to amazement as he
turns its pages and discovers the lost story of Sherlock Holmes's
greatest case: the pursuit of Jack the Ripper. From the brothels
and back alleys of fog-choked Whitechapel to the manor of one of
England's greatest families, Holmes and Dr. Watson chase history's
most fearsome killer. But it will take the brilliance of Ellery
Queen to solve the case once and for all. Based on the Sherlock
Holmes film A Study in Terror, this collaboration between two of
the world's greatest detectives is one of the most original mystery
novels of all time.
Called to an urgent meeting at a mysterious shack in the middle of
nowhere, attorney Bill Angell finds his brother-in-law, traveling
salesman Joe Wilson, stabbed. With Joe's dying breath, he manages
to convey that his murderer was a veiled woman. Was it the
wild-eyed woman who had sped past Bill on his way up the dark road
to the shack? To help him unravel the mystery, Bill calls on his
old friend Ellery Queen. But first Queen will have to unravel the
victim's double life - starting with the shack where he's been
found dead, smack dab between two very different worlds.
Raised in Japan by American expatriates, Karen Leith now lives a
reclusive life in New York, known chiefly for her highly regarded
novels, of which the latest has won a major American literary
award. When she is found on the floor behind her desk, surrounded
by blood, it looks like foul play. But the only possible suspect is
Leith's future daughter-in-law, Eva, who has recently become
engaged. Eva swears by her innocence, even though she was the last
to hear Leith alive and the first to find her dead. Eva was waiting
outside Leith's office to share the happy news and maintains that
no one entered through that door, while the room's other possible
exit was locked. The only one who can help her clear her name is
mystery writer Ellery Queen, an acquaintance of the victim through
New York's literary circles. Queen intends to unravel the
locked-room mystery, but with no murder weapon and too many
incriminating fingerprints, this case just might be one even he
can't solve.
When a popular singer goes from retired to dead the day before New
Year's Eve, Ellery Queen is certain it's murder. Luckily, just
before she died, the victim managed to scribble out a single
mysterious word: F A C E. Unfortunately, no one knows what it
means. With the help of a new acquaintance, Inspector Harry Burke
from Scotland, Queen uncovers even more baffling clues written in
invisible ink. Enter the beautiful, discarded conquests of the dead
singer's playboy husband, who prove a dangerous distraction for
both Queen and Burke. Will erotic temptation derail the
investigation? If it does, hearts will be broken, and what's worse
-- someone will get away with murder.
The "intensely logical" master sleuth discovers a crowded coffin in
one of his earliest and most puzzling cases (The New York Times).
The scion of a famous New York art-dealing family, Georg Khalkis
spent his final years housebound with blindness until he died of a
heart attack. After his funeral, his will mysteriously vanishes.
Following a thorough search, Inspector Richard Queen's son, Ellery,
suggests checking the coffin, where they discover not one, but two
corpses. When the second body is identified as an ex-convict, it
becomes clear they have a murder case on their hands with links to
the art world and a da Vinci forgery. It's up to young Ellery Queen
to solve the case in "a lively and well-constructed yarn containing
unusual setting, ingenuity of plot, a surprise solution and
legitimate use of the analytico-deductive method" (New York Herald
Tribune Book Review).
A murder in a crowded Broadway theater presents a full house of
suspects-the first in this classic mystery series starring Ellery
Queen! Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to
draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it's packed to the gills with
action, explosions, and gunfire. In fact, Gunplay is so loud that
no one notices the killing of Monte Field. In a sold-out theater,
Field is found dead partway through the second act, surrounded by
empty seats. The police hold the crowd and call for the one man who
can untangle this daring murder: Inspector Richard Queen. With the
help of his son Ellery, a bibliophile and novelist whose
imagination can solve any crime, the Inspector attacks this
seemingly impenetrable mystery. Anyone in the theater could have
killed the unscrupulous lawyer, and several had the motive. Only
Ellery Queen, in his debut novel, can decipher the clue of the dead
man's missing top hat.
A stylish puzzle mystery from the author who "took the intellectual
game that was the formal detective novel to greater heights than
any American writer" (The Weekly Standard). The windows of French's
department store are one of New York's great attractions.
Year-round, their displays show off the finest in fashion, art, and
home decor, and tourists and locals alike make a point of stopping
to see what's on offer. One afternoon, as the board debates a
merger upstairs, a salesgirl begins a demonstration in one of the
windows, showing off French's new Murphy bed. A crowd gathers to
watch the bed lower from the wall after a single touch of a button.
But as the bed opens, people run screaming. Out tumbles a
woman-crumpled, bloody, and dead. The victim was Mrs. French, wife
of the company president, and finding her killer will turn this
esteemed store upside down. Only one detective has the soft touch
necessary-debonair intellectual Ellery Queen. As Queen and his
police inspector father dig into French's secrets, they find their
killer is more serious than any window shopper.
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