Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck. But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the...
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Victorian...
De Maupassant once wrote: “There is nothing more beautiful and honorable than killing.”
The Bride Wore Black offers grim and absorbing proof of that idea.
Four men are murdered. Each time a woman they have never known comes into their...
Police Captain Bartholdi sometimes indulged himself in a harmless fantasy. His thoughts, he would imagine, were irresponsible imps that wriggled out of his head and scampered around with an abandon that was often embarrassing. A woman had been...
Автор: Куин (Квин) Эллери
Серия: Ellery Queen Detective #24
Язык: английский
Год: 1953
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“A Problem in Adultery” might aptly be the subtitle of Ellery’s latest case.
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Recipe for a backyard cookout: one guest skewered by...
When Colonel Phillips begins his final game of golf, his greatest problem in life is that he has begun to slice the ball. Playing with his lawyer and nephews, Phillips fights his way back into the game and is on the verge of victory when he keels...