Ellery Queen Detective Books
[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Scott Harrison] The second novel in the popular detective series featuring Ellery Queen. French's department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele. But no one there could be proud of its latest exclusive window display: the bloodstained corpse of the owner's wife. Ellery Queen and his father, Inspector Richard Queen, soon discover that this palace of commerce is a viper's nest of fear, jealousy, suspicion, and hatred, where love is cheap and the price of honor marked down. But worst of all is the mysterious mocking mastermind who is out to turn the glittering store into a bargain basement of murder.
Ellery Queen drops in to Dutch Memorial Hospital for a quick visit with his old friend, Medical Director Dr. John Minchen. Minchen gives him a tour, and invites him to stay and observe an operation on the hospital's benefactor, Abby Doorn. Ellery takes a seat in the operating theatre's gallery. The patient is brought in, but something is wrong. She is dead, garroted with wire.
* DYING MESSAGE o Mum is the Word (EQMM, 4/66)* CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN DEDUCTIONo Object Lesson (This Week, 09/10/55, as "The Blackboard Gangsters" and EQMM, 4/58)o No Parking (This Week, 3/18/56, as "Terror in a Penthouse" and EQMM, 2/58)o No Place to Live (This Week, 6/10/56, as "The Man They All Hated" and EQMM, 3/58)o Miracles Do Happen (EQMM, 7/57)* QUEEN'S BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONo GAMBLING DEPT. -- The Lonely Bride (This Week, 12/04/49, as "The Lady Couldn't Explain", The Sunday Herald 7/9/50 as"The Case Of the Lonely Bride")SPY DEPT. -- Mystery at the Library of Congress (Argosy, 6/60 as "Enter Ellery Queen" EQMM, 2/63)o SPY DEPT. -- Dead Ringer ((?): Diners' Club, 3/65 and reprinted in EQMM, 10/66)o KIDNAPPING DEPT. -- The Broken T (This Week, 11/3/63 as "Mystery in Neon Red" and reprinted in EQMM, 5/66)o MURDER DEPT. -- Half a Clue (This Week, 8/25/63 as "Half a Clue to Murder" EQMM, 8/66)o ANONYMOUS LETTERS DEPT. -- Eve of the Wedding (EQMM, 8/55, as "Bride in Danger")o PROBATE DEPT. -- Last Man to Die (This Week, 11/3/63 Variety (Australian), 1964; EQMM, 1/67)o CRIME SYNDICATE DEPT. -- Payoff (Cavalier, 8/64 as "Crime Syndicate Payoff" EQMM 7/66)* THE PUZZLE CLUBo The Little Spy (Cavalier, 1/65 EQMM, 9/66)o The President Regrets (Diner's Club, 9/65 EQMM, 7/67)* HISTORICAL DETECTIVE STORYo Abraham Lincoln's Clue (MD, 6/65 EQMM, 3/67)All stories originally published in This Week, Argosy, Cavalier, Signature, MD, and EQMM between 1949 and 1966.
From the very beginning, the Khalkis case struck a somber note. It began, as was peculiarly harmonious in the light of what was to come, with the death of an old man. Georg Khalkis, internationally famous art dealer and collector, died of heart failure. After his funeral, his attorney found that the will was missing and immediately called in the district attorney. When Inspector Queen and his son, Ellery, are brought in to solve the mystery of the missing will, Ellery mentions the one place they have not searched for the will . . . the coffin! Upon exhumation of the Khalkis coffin they find that it contained not one body -- but two!
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An ordinary day in Gloucestershire holds a half century of secrets and lies in this crafty and well-crafted mystery, when a skeleton turns up in a field outside the old village of Tolland. A dogtag beside it in the earth bears the name Ben Gordheimer, a young American soldier who disappeared—and was dishonorably discharged for desertion—during the war fifty years before. To complicate matters for the police team of Keith Tyrell, the adept and ambitious Detective Inspector sent to Tolland, the investigation into the G.I.'s death unearths a second, much more recent corpse whose identity and identification as a blackmailer sets the entire village even more on edge. While Tyrell discovers the killer, long dead, of the G.I. quickly enough, the village of Tolland itself proves to be a harder case to crack. The repercussions of the old murder continue to haunt the memories and disturb the souls of Tolland's inhabitants, while the fact that another killer is dwelling in their midst troubles the placidity of their closely knit daily lives. Their distrust of Tyrell's inquiry and of the avid press only reinforces their tight-lipped secrecy. Tyrell has problems of his own as well, with the envy and betrayals of internal politics among the members of his police team increasingly impeding the progress of the investigation. Neither the village nor Tyrell realizes, though, just how quickly time is running out for them in this case. Then a third dead body further rouses once-sleepy Tolland and confronts the beleaguered Tyrell with another nasty case of murder.
Da den excentriske mangemillionær Cadmus Cole dør, efterlader han sin formue til sine to niecer, men testamentet er ikke helt almindeligt. Ingen af de to piger vil nemlig få så meget som en cent, hvis de går hen og gifter sig. Hvis den ene dør, vil den anden få det hele. Coles niecer kender ikke hinanden, og da de mødes første gang, er de begge klar over, at de heller aldrig vil komme til at kunne lide hinanden. Så sker det uundgåelige. Den ene af de unge piger bliver dræbt, og alt tyder på, at det er den anden, der har gjort det. Det hele synes oplagt, da Ellery Queen blander sig i sagen. Efter et par timers forløb er han dog klar over, at det ikke er så enkelt, som det ser ud til. "Dragens tænder" udkom første gang på dansk i 1963. Ellery Queen er både en fiktiv karakter og et fælles pseudonym for to fætre fra Brooklyn, New York – Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay, og Manford Emanuel Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee – som sammen skrev mere end 30 romaner og flere novellesamlinger under Ellery Queen-pseudonymet. Den fiktive Ellery Queen er krimiforfatter og amatørdetektiv, og han bistår sin far, der er politiinspektør i New York, med at løse forvirrende mordgåder.
Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death.  The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the townâ s first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years ago and never recovered. Another is engaged to the cityâ s rising political star, an upright man whoâ s already boring her. And then thereâ s Lola, the divorced, bohemian black sheep. Together, they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville, Queen sits backâ waiting for the crime to come to him.
Cornelia Potts is a wicked woman with millio ns of dollars, a henpecked husband, and six miserable childr en. Every life she touches turns to sheer hell. Then, one by one, the inhabitants of the vast, grotesque Potts mansion a re visited by death. '
A New Novel of Wrightsville
Knowing a package containing a dead dog would literally frighten its intended victim to death, a cunning enemy delivers this perfect murder weapon to Leander Hill, a prominent Hollywood jeweler. When Hill's daughter enlists the support of Queen, he must harness all of his skills to prevail over this unscrupulous mind.
Excellent copy, just some wear from reading. Cardboad cigarette ad still attached inside book as issued. No markings inside, has red inventory mark on page end, very nice vintage copy
Aka November Song For years, Inspector Richard Queen had been outshone by his writer son. Now, with Ellery away, he had a case all his own--or did he? The verdict had been accidental death, and only the victim's nurse had seen the one thing that made it murder. Recruiting a Senior Citizens corps of retired cops, Dick Queen tracked a murderer--and found himself courting his only witness! No wonder he kept muttering, "What's Ellery going to say...?"
A fixer hunts down a man in Europe for the sake of his lover’s fortuneIn 1943, Barney Street was flying a bombing mission over Holland when the Germans knocked his plane out of the sky. He bailed out at the last minute and was rescued from the Nazis by a Czech officer named Milo Hacha. Decades later, Street is dead, and his widow is desperate to get her greedy mitts on his estate. There’s just one His will leaves every cent to Hacha, who disappeared years ago. Street’s widow hires her lover, Steve Longacre, to go to Europe in search of the missing benefactor. If he’s dead, all is well. If not, Longacre will have to kill him. From Holland to Switzerland and beyond the Iron Curtain, Longacre stalks the Czech’s trail. He may have come for money, but he’ll be lucky to escape with his life.
While stranded in the desert, Ellery Queen stumbles across a religious cult. It s 1943, the war is raging, and sleuthing scribe Ellery Queen wants to do his bit. After a tortuous cross-country drive, he takes a job writing scripts for a Hollywood propaganda house twelve hours a day of hack work that quickly turns his mind to jelly. After a few weeks, he is so worn down that he can type nothing but gibberish, and he decides to drive home. The trouble starts as soon as he reaches the desert. His ancient roadster breaks down on the edge of Death Valley. Wandering in search of help, he is saved by a man known as the Teacher, who takes him to an oasis called Quenan. Here, Queen finds a bizarre, reclusive cult that seems to have come straight out of the ancient past. A murder has been committed in the desert, and the Quenanites plan on delivering some Old Testament justice. Queen is just the detective they ve been waiting for."
Mervyn Gray, a English doctoral student, tries to discover which of four men named John, killed a coed, Mary Hazelwood.