Download or read book Calendar of Crime written by Ellery Queen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of short stories, the legendary detective must solve one mystery per month in a year of chilling crime. Every new year, the seven remaining alumni of the first graduating class of Eastern University gather in Manhattan to reminisce. Within that group, there is a secret clique—the Inner Circle—forged around a crooked business arrangement, the profits of which will be collected by the last living member. When three of the Inner Circle die within a year, the remaining men fear for their lives. Just before Christmas, one of the survivors comes to the great detective Ellery Queen to beg for help. There are just a few days to save a life—and the university itself. Even if Queen can get to the bottom of the Inner Circle, eleven more puzzles will greet him throughout the year. As Calendar of Crime flips onward, the detective will find that there is no off-season for murder.

Download or read book Ellery Queen s Prime Crimes written by Ellery Queen and published by Booksales. This book was released on 1988 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fourth Side of the Triangle written by Ellery Queen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fashion designer’s murder draws legendary sleuth Ellery Queen into a New York society family’s tangled web of secrets. Ever since New York was Nieuw Amsterdam, the McKells have been building their fortune. Combining Scottish thrift with American know-how, they built an empire that, by the 1930s, stretched across the globe. No one in the family found more success than Ashton McKell, an entrepreneur who counts his wealth in the hundreds of millions, who smokes twenty cigars a day, and whose only problem is his son Dane, an adventurous soul who shocks his father by giving up business for the disgraceful pursuit of writing. Despite their differences, Dane loves his father. He is shocked when he learns the old man is having an affair—and thunderstruck when Ashton is accused of murder. When his father’s mistress is found dead, Dane will do anything to free Ashton. And no detective is more suited to this puzzling case of blackmail, lust, and greed than the singular Ellery Queen.

Download or read book The Tragedy of Y written by Ellery Queen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide’s been staged—and suspects the members of an eccentric New York family . . . A ramshackle trawler, the Lavinia D rumbles into New York harbor with empty nets. When its crew spies something floating in the water, they drag it in, hoping for a profitable catch. Their prize flops on the deck, limp, cold, and bloody: the corpse of a man. His name was York Hatter, and he had disappeared from his house on the fashionable Washington Square several days before. He hadn’t left a note and he wasn’t carrying any money. The police assume he killed himself—but they are very wrong. The Hatter family is famously eccentric, and when a murder attempt is made on York’s invalid stepdaughter, any one of them could be the culprit. Solving the case will fall to Drury Lane, the retired Shakespearean actor who has turned his genius to solving crimes. But he may find that these Hatters are so crazy and so deadly, they even put Hamlet to shame.

Download or read book The Dutch Shoe Mystery written by Ellery Queen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A millionaire ... murdered as she was about to be saved... 'A new Ellery Queen book has always been something to look forward to for many years now' Agatha Christie 'Ellery Queen is the American detective story' New York Times The son of a police detective, Ellery Queen is no stranger to death, and has seen more than his fair share of dead bodies. Yet the thought of seeing a living person sliced open makes him ill. So when a doctor invites him to sit in on an operation, Queen braces himself. The patient is a millionaire in a diabetic coma. To prepare her for surgery, the hospital staff has stabilised her blood sugar level and wheeled her to the operating theatre - but just before the first incision, the doctors realise she is dead, strangled while lying unconscious. Now Ellery Queen moves from observer to detective in his most mysterious case yet.

Download or read book The House of Brass written by Ellery Queen and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When six oddly assorted people answer an invitation to an isolated mansion lured by the promise of fabulous wealth, they are trapped into playing parts in a monstrous joke - the joke of a twisted, brilliant mind - a joke whose punch line is murder.

Download or read book Ellery Queen s Japanese Golden Dozen written by Ellery Queen and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Misadventures of Ellery Queen written by Josh Pachter and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles 16 stories by a wide variety of authors, all written (sometimes tongue-in-cheek) as homages to, and parodies and pastiches of, the character -- and writing team -- known as "Ellery Queen."

Download or read book Double Double written by Ellery Queen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nursery rhyme leads Ellery Queen to a killer—from the author who took “the formal detective novel to greater heights than any American writer” (The Weekly Standard). Ellery Queen was raised in New York City, but his heart belongs to the village of Wrightsville. An idyllic New England hamlet, it was the site of some of the world-famous detective’s most remarkable investigations. After years of solving murder cases in Wrightsville’s coziest parlors, Queen was sure the community did not have any further mysteries to offer. But an anonymous letter draws him back to the most dangerous small town in America. Luke MacCaby’s sagging old Victorian mansion sits on the edge of a respectable Wrightsville district as a fading reminder of the area’s long-vanished heyday. When the owner—a seemingly impoverished hermit—passes away, the town is shocked to learn that he was a partner in the local dye works and left behind a fortune worth millions. To find MacCaby’s killer, Queen must peel away the surface of the place he so dearly loves.

Download or read book The Night My Friend written by Edward D. Hoch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVAn incredible assortment of stories from one of history’s masters of short fiction/divDIV On the morning of the merger, fog shrouds the offices of Jupiter Steel. On the twenty-first floor, the board of directors gathers to follow the commands of Billy Calm, an unequaled titan of finance. But a few minutes before the meeting, Calm jumps out a window. The chief of security rushes to the street, but where there should be a body, he sees only slush; Billy Calm has vanished into the fog./divDIV “The Long Way Down” is a classic Edward D. Hoch story—elegantly baffling, with prose that will please even the most hard-boiled fans. But this collection contains much more than puzzles. Here are the odds and ends of Hoch’s early work, covering espionage, boxing, and every shade of noir—as beautiful as the fog, and as chilling as the first step off the ledge. /divDIV/div/div

Download or read book Ellery Queen s Champions of Mystery written by Ellery Queen and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 1977-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The escapades of Nero Wolfe, Inspector Maigret, Lew Archer, Ellery Queen, Nick Velvet, and others are recounted in stories of detectives who are champions of justice, truth, and order

Download or read book Twisted written by Jeffery Deaver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not for the faint of heart, "Twisted" presents 17 beautifully crafted thrillers in one spine-tingling volume. Includes an all-new Lincoln Rhyme novel.

Download or read book The Devil to Pay written by Ellery Queen and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Taker and Other Stories written by Rubem Fonseca and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of Fonseca's short stories to appear in English, ranging across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, where vast disparities, in wealth, social standing and prestige are untenable. Rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order and violence and deception are the essential tools of survival. From the tale of the businessman who rans over pedestrians to let off steam to a serial killer being pushed to kill more by his lover, this collection is a true gem.

Download or read book The Roman Hat Mystery written by Ellery Queen and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Serial Titles written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ellery Queen Five Complete Novels written by Ellery Queen and published by Outlet. This book was released on 1982 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious religious commune, New York City during a choking heat wave, and a quiet New England town are among the settings for intrigue and murder