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Ellery Queen
This was cold-blooded murder!The Syndicate–led by gangster Larry Cutter–is trying to take over Iroquois. They want the town, mayor, and police chief in their pocket. So they kill chief Andy…
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When Barney Street, the fixer, was in Holland in World War II, his life had been saved by a German soldier.Now Barney is dead and his two million dollar estate…
Disc jockey Tutter King has it made. Every time he spins a platter on King’s Session, gold comes out: TV earnings, returns on his secret holdings in recording companies–the old…
You are invited to a murder.That was how the invitations should have read when aged millionaire Hendrik Brass sent out his messages to six oddly assorted men and women who…
Who are you, Malone? Just a little while ago you were a cop. That was before the two punks and their girl hit town. That was before they boosted a…
John Lovering Benedict had more than most men–more money, more mansions, more cars, but most of all more women, including three ex-wives with little in common but their extraordinary physiques…
Beautiful actress Martha Lawrence has a problem. Her once loving husband, Dirk, has become violent and controlling, and she does not know why. When she reaches out to their friend…
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Eccentric multimillionaire Cadmus Cole hires Ellery Queen to investigate a case but won’t say what it is. When Cole dies mysteriously at sea, Queen and his partner, Beau Rummell, must…
An Ellery Queen mystery.
Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes match wits to reveal the identity of history’s most infamous and depraved killer.
Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes are the undisputed masters of analytical deduction-their…
You are invited to a murder.
That was how the invitations should have read when aged millionaire Hendrik Brass sent out his messages to six oddly assorted men and women…
John Lovering Benedict had more than most men-more money, more mansions, more cars, but most of all more women, including three ex-wives with little in common but their extraordinary physiques…
The final novel by the legendary Ellery Queen, A Fine and Private Place ranks with Queen’s incomparable best.
The nine-word clue was one of nine cryptic notes that had been…
In New York City in the early 1930s, a man is poisoned on a crowded streetcar during rush hour. Everyone sees Longstreet die-but no one sees the killer. Inspector Thumm’s…
Some bizarre things have been happening to the eccentric Hatter family. First, the body of York Hatter is recovered from the ocean. But he didn’t drown. He died of poison…
In this third Drury Lane novel, the elderly detective is aided by Patience Thumm in the investigation of the mysterious death of a corrupt state senator. Senator Fawcett, a man…
Ellery Queen challenges you to solve these clues to death. A thin envelope-worth a man’s life. A shattered display case-whose stolen contents a thief replaced with a strange manuscript. The…
John Vallancourt, the cool, calm diplomat, is worried stiff. A dear friend is dead and his daughter Nancy is missing. John fears the worst-and the worst is Nancy’s sweetheart Keith…
Where is Harlan James?
He is the indicted, bail-jumping leader of Banbury’s militant Black Hearts who has gone underground … but whose rage, still heard on tape, is edging the…
There is an epidemic of death in the town. Lila Connor, neighborhood flirt and sex goddess, lay dead in her home, victim of an ill-placed letter opener. Larry Connor, successful…
Blue film and blood-red murder!
All Hollywood producer Ben Sloane had wanted was to find Sol Dahlman, the mysterious film genius who had made The Wild Nymph-and now Sloane is…
The coed missing from Tisquanto State is the daughter of Governor Sam Holland’s rival for reelection-and best friend. But she is more than that. She is Laura Thornton, a human…
This was cold-blooded murder!
The Syndicate-led by gangster Larry Cutter-is trying to take over Iroquois. They want the town, mayor, and police chief in their pocket. So they kill chief…
When Barney Street, the fixer, was in Holland in World War II, his life had been saved by a German soldier.
Now Barney is dead and his two million dollar…
Disc jockey Tutter King has it made. Every time he spins a platter on King’s Session, gold comes out: TV earnings, returns on his secret holdings in recording companies-the old…
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World War II hero Davy Fox has returned to his New England hometown of Wrightsville a changed man. When his wife Linda wakes up to find Davy’s hands squeezed around…
Ellery Queen has been hired by the head of a major motion picture studio to write a film that will reunite two stars caught up in an age-old feud. These…
Originally published: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., c1936.
At the tail end of the Roaring Twenties, a birthday bash for publishing heir John Sebastian, Jr., perfectly coincides with the twelve days of Christmas. Among the twelve invited guests…
A corpse in a department store window offers a gruesome puzzle for Ellery Queen.
An exhausted Ellery Queen is driving back East after months of working on military films in Hollywood when he runs into car trouble. Stranded in the middle of a desert…
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…
A missing will and an extra corpse buried with an elderly Greek art dealer and collector bring Ellery Queen and his father, Inspector Queen, to investigate what may turn out…
New edition. Originally published: 1943.
When the past comes back to haunt you, there is no escape.
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‘Ellery Queen IS the American detective story’ Anthony Boucher.
The game has begun…
A murder in a crowded theater leaves a pack of suspects, but only one clue.
Ellery Queen investigates a series of bizarre murders that lead to a mysterious religious cult.
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