Ruth couldn’t commit murder—
• When Dave Tully returned from a business trip that night he found the house dark. At first he thought that Ruth, his wife, was out playing bridge and had been delayed. Then he had a caller.
• The...
Ellery Queen is back in Wrightsville — the town that his thousands of admirers will remember as the scene of many of the brilliant detective’s most striking triumphs, including CALAMITY TOWN and TEN DAYS’ WONDER.
Ellery has never had a...
John Vallancourt, the cool, calm diplomat, was worried stiff. A dear friend was dead and his daughter Nancy was missing. John feared the worst and the worst was Nancy’s sweetheart Keith Rollins. Keith was the prime suspect in the case and he was...
Lest we give you an unfair advantage or send you off on a false scent, we tell you nothing about this story in advance except that the clues go back over three hundred years in one of the most ingenious deductive problems that ever confronted a...
How could a man have been murdered when he was found alone in his study, a gun in his hand, and the door locked from the inside? It had to be suicide, the police figured, for although there was no suicide note there was a letter proving conclusively...
A quarter of a century’s requests from many thousands of Ellery Queen fans all over the world have finally borne fruit. At long last, here is a full-fledged murder mystery investigated and solved by Inspector Richard Queen without so much as a...