Let Ellery Queen clue you in on his special brand of high tension, brain-teasing mystery! This collection consists of novelettes and short stories from Queen's many escapades. Stories include "Mum Is the Word," "Object Lesson," "No Parking," "No Place to Live," "Miracles Do Happen," "The Lonely Bride," "Mystery at the Library of Congress," "Dead Ringer," "The Broken T," "Half a Clue," "Eve of the Wedding," "Last Man to Die," "Payoff," "The Little Spy," "The President Regrets," and "Abraham Lincoln's Clue."
Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.
"Ellery Queen is the American detective story."-Anthony Boucher, author of Nine Times Nine
Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.
In "Wedding Anniversary," Ellery returns to Wrightsville just in time to witness the poisoning of his kindly host, the jeweler Ernst Bauenfel. To solve the puzzle of Ernst's death, Ellery must carefully analyze the dying man's last words.
"Ellery Queen is the American detective story."-Anthony Boucher, author of Nine times Nine
Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.
In "The Honest Swindler," Ellery is challenged to solve an imaginary riddle devised by three members of the Puzzle Club. He must explain how an old prospector could have spent five years on a fruitless uranium hunt and still have returned every penny of his backers' money.
"Ellery Queen is the American detective story."-Anthony Boucher, author of Nine times Nine
Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.
In "The Odd Man," Ellery is challenged to solve an imaginary riddle devised by three members of the Puzzle Club. With very little information to go on, he must correctly answer to his confreres which of their three imagined suspects is a secret criminal.
"Ellery Queen is the American detective story."-Anthony Boucher, author of Nine times Nine
Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.
In "The Three Students," Ellery is challenged to solve an imaginary riddle devised by three members of the Puzzle Club. He must decide which of the titular trio (handily named Adams, Barnes, and Carver) stole a valuable ring from a university president's desk.
"Ellery Queen is the American detective story."-Anthony Boucher, author of Nine times Nine
Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.
In "Terror Town," the small New England town of Northfield is deftly sketched as the background for a series of violent deaths, all on the exact same spot: the muddy gravesite where the first body, that of a farmer's son, had been found.
Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a standalone audiobook for the first time.
In "Uncle from Australia," a typical fun-and-games short story, Ellery interprets the dying message of an uncle from down under and must determine which of his greedy relatives skewered him for an inheritance.
"Ellery Queen is the American detective story."-Anthony Boucher, author of Nine times Nine
The Tragedy of Errors is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final but never published Ellery Queen novel, containing all the hallmarks of the greatest Queen mysteries-the dying message, the succession of false solutions before the astonishing truth is revealed, and scrupulous fair play to the listener. And the theme is one that Queen had been developing for many years: the manipulation of events in a world going mad by people who aspire to the power of gods.
The Tragedy of Errors also contains the six hitherto uncollected Ellery Queen short stories-"Terror Town," "Uncle from Australia," "The Three Students," "The Odd Man," "The Honest Swindler," "The Reindeer Clue," and "Wedding Anniversary."
"After Poe, I think it's true that Ellery Queen was the most significant and important writer of mystery fiction in America."-Otto Penzler, Edgar Award-winning author
Trick I-The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear-each as dead as the other.
Trick II-From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a distance of twelve feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch of each other into a spectator's back-a feat utterly impossible to perform yet brazenly and undeniably done.
Trick III-The pièce de résistance. This time it's an entire house, a real house, a solid house, which Ellery Queen had been in only the day before ... vanished from the face of the earth. And in its place emerges one of the most incredible conundrums ever to face the master crime solver.
Encores-The New Adventures of Ellery Queen is a classic collection of eight short mysteries and a remarkable short novel. First published in 1940, it has sold more than one million copies and continues to be "as good as they come" (New York Times).
Stories include "The Lamp of God," "The Treasure Hunt," "The Hollow Dragon," "The House of Darkness," "The Bleeding Portrait," "Man Bites Dog," "Long Shot," "Mind over Matter," and "The Trojan Horse."
In the merry month of May, Ellery Queen made a trek to Gettysburg to witness an annual celebration-and an annual murder. February found the ingenious Ellery locked in a furious battle of wits with a dead US president. These are but two of the twelve appointments with crime that make up Queen's baffling calendar of conundrums. Each elegant enigma ticks off all the surprise and excitement that have made Queen the dean of American detective fiction.
Stories include "The Inner Circle," "The President's Half Dime," "The Ides of Michael Magoon," "The Emperor's Dice," "The Gettysburg Bugle," "The Medical Finger," "The Fallen Angel," "The Needle's Eye," "The Three R's," "The Dead Cat," "The Telltale Bottle," and "The Dauphin's Doll."
"Effective episodes...combine to show this virtuoso at his best."-Kirkus Reviews
Queen's Bureau of Investigation is now open for business-and in each department of this new enterprise Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise the brilliant, ingenious, and at times startling talents of his crime-lab mind. For to the bureau come some of the most plaguey cases in Queen's career.
In "The Three Widows," two of Theodore Hood's wealthy, widow daughters, as well as his own widow, are caught in a murder that Ellery reluctantly relegated to the Impossible Crime Department.
In "The Myna Birds," old Mrs. Andrus' bequest of a million dollars to thirty-eight observant and talkative birds sets off a chain of violent events leading straight to the Embezzlement Department-and the only bird-detective on record!
"A Question of Honor" is a matter of considerable international delicacy, involving indiscreet letters, a Shakespearean scholar from Scotland Yard, and a crime at once assigned to the Suicide Department.
Numerous other criminals, crimes, follies, and felonies find their way to the bailiwicks of the QBI as well. From the files of the Buried Treasure Department comes "Miser's Gold"; from the Narcotics Department, "The Black Ledger"; from the Kidnapping Department, "Child Missing!"; and many others. In each case, Ellery Queen demonstrates the powers that make him unique among detectives.
