The Adventures of Ellery Queen

7 November 2023

Territory Rights — Worldwide.

Ellery Queen (Author)

Description

Eleven confounding problems in deduction for Golden Age super-sleuth Ellery Queen

For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain—and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police inspector. But when a university professor asks Queen to teach a class, the detective finds there are people whom reason cannot touch: college students. 

Queen’s adventure on campus is only the first of this incomparable collection of short mysteries. In the tales that follow, he tangles with a violent book thief, an assassin of acrobats and New York’s only cleanly shaven bearded lady. And the only thing more dazzling than the mysterious murders he confronts are his brilliant solutions at the end.

Ellery Queen was a master of the short mystery, so closely associated with the form that the longest-running magazine for such tales bears his name; the excellent stories in this volume show why he continues to be considered one of the greatest American practitioners of the Golden Age whodunnit.

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Paperback

9781613164587

135 x 203 mm • 336 pages

£8.99

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