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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.
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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.
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.
This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
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