The Adventures of 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
Ellery Queen
Publishers Weekly: "Considering the wealth of professional and personal information, it's tempting to call this definitive." Francis M. Nevins, twice winner of the prestigious Edgar award for critical studies of Cornell Woolrich and Elle...
Dutch Shoe Mystery
The Dutch Shoe Mystery
Kungen Är Död
Ni kommer att bli mördad... Så lyder det första hotbrevet till King Bendigo, världens rikaste man och vapenprofitör. Deckarförfattaren Ellery Queen och hans far, kommissarie Richard Queen vid New Yorks mordkommission, får i uppdrag att komma till Bendigos privata ö och ta reda på vem som skrivit hotbreven. Brevskrivaren påstår sig kunna döda Bendigo vid en på förhand angiven tidpunkt - en tidpunkt när Bendigo befinner sig inlåst i ett hermetiskt slutet rum. Men kommer han levande ur det? Ellery Queen betraktas allmänt som en av de främsta författarna inom den klassiska deckarlitteraturen (cirka 1920 - 1970). Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr och Ellery Queen utgör en oöverträffad trio från deckargenrens guldålder, där huvudvikten lades på att förbluffa läsarna med kluriga intriger och "omöjliga" brott. Bakom pseudonymen Ellery Queen stod de amerikanska kusinerna Frederic Dannay och Manfred B. Lee. Tillsammans skrev de 39 romaner 1929 - 1971 och därtill sex novellsamlingar. Huvudperson i de flesta av böckerna är deckarförfattaren Ellery Queen - alltså samma namn som Dannay och Lee använde sig av som pseudonym. Till de bästa av deras detektivromaner brukar räknas: Konsthandlarens kista (1932), Mr Queen har otur (1942), Katt med många svansar (1949) och den experimentella Och på åttonde dagen... (1964). Kungen är död var deras tjugosjätte roman. Extra: Boken innehåller dessutom Queen-novellen Bröllopsdagen från 1967!
Mord I Hollywood
Hollywood 1938. Ellery Queen är på plats för att skriva filmmanus, men istället tvingas han gå undercover som journalist i denna lättsamma deckare där polisen misstänker att offret har blivit mördad med en antik värja insmetad med förgiftad sirap! Vad betyder revan i markisen? Och varför fanns det bara två fingeravtryck på kikaren? Boken avslutas med en extra Ellery Queen-novell: Högoddsaren En deckarklassiker för första gången på svenska! Sedan debuten 1929 är Ellery Queen en garanti för rent spel med läsarna som ska ha tillgång till alla ledtrådar för att lösa mordgåtan. Bakom pseudonymen dolde sig de två amerikanska kusinerna Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971) och Frederic Dannay (1905-1982). Boken inleds med ett specialskrivet förord om Ellery Queens år i Hollywood. Originalets titlar: The Devil to Pay (1938) och Long Shot (1939). "Mord i Hollywood är ett expertpussel." NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE
Siamese Twin Mystery
When Ellery Queen and his father encounter a raging forest fire during a mountain drive, the only direction to go is up -- up a winding dirt road that leads to an isolated hillside manor, inhabited by a secretive surgeon and his diverse cast of guests. Trapped by the fire, the Queens settle into the uneasy atmosphere of their surroundings. Things become even more tense the following morning when the doctor is discovered dead, apparently shot down while playing solitaire the night before. The only clue is a torn six of spades. The suspects include a society beauty, a suspicious valet, and a pair of conjoined twins. When another murder follows, the killer inside the house becomes as threatening as the mortal flames outside its walls. Faced with a complex set of alibis, motives, and evidence, Ellery Queen must rely on his powers of deduction and logic to uncover the murderer's identity -- but can he solve this whodunnit before the fire devours its subjects? Featuring bizarre
Ellery Queen Mysteries: The Complete Series
OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.All 22 episodes of the American TV series starring Jim Hutton as mystery writer Ellery Queen. The programme follows Inspector Richard Queen (David Wayne) as he enlists the help of his son Ellery to solve the many mysterious crimes of New York City. The episodes are: 'The Adventure of Auld Lang Syne', 'The Adventure of the Lover's Leap', 'The Adventure of the Chinese Dog', 'The Adventure of the Comic Book Crusader', 'The Adventure of the 12th Floor Express', 'The Adventure of Miss Aggie's Farewell Performance', 'The Adventure of Colonel Nivin's Memoirs', 'The Adventure of the Mad Tea Party', 'The Adventure of Veronica's Veils', 'The Adventure of the Pharaoh's Case', 'The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument', 'The Adventure of the Black Falcon', 'The Adventure of the Sunday Punch', 'The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer', 'The Adventure of the Wary Witness', 'The Adventure of the Judas Tree', 'The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario', 'The Adventure of the Two-Faced Woman', 'The Adventure of the Tyrant of Tin Pan Alley', 'The Adventure of Caesar's Last Sleep', 'The Adventure of the Hardhearted Huckster' and 'The Adventure of the Disappearing Dagger'.Typ: DVD
Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories: From Japan's Greatest Detective & Crime Writers
'As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a historical personage. Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, after Poe, the most important American in mystery fiction.'--Otto Penzler, from Detectionary: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Characters in Mystery Fiction A newspaper receives a letter from a man claiming to have been murdered--it's impossible but the truth is not so simple; five strangers who share the same initials are invited to spend the night in a luxury hotel but one of them is a murderer. The 12 stories in this book will lead you through dramatic twists and unexpected turns. The legendary Ellery Queen selected these stories by award-winning Japanese authors from among many thousands published in postwar Japan. Each story features an unusual crime and a complex set of clues investigated by a diverse and colorful cast of characters that includes a calculating
Spanish Cape Mystery
The Godfrey family is vacationing among the picturesque rocky cliffs of the North Atlantic seaboard, expecting peace, quiet, and, perhaps, a bit of golf or tennis. But one dusky evening in an isolated spot on the grounds of Spanish Cape, Rosa and her uncle David get into an argument about her secretive romance with one of their guests, the roguish John Marco, a handsome cad with a yellow roadster and no visible source of income. That's when a towering one-eyed man with a .38 revolver emerges from the twilight. When renowned sleuth Ellery Queen arrives the next day from New York City, looking forward to a summer getaway on the coast, he realizes his trip will be no walk on the beach. Rescuing Rosa, he discovers her captor mistook David for John and struck the former down instead. But Ellery has more work to do when Rosa's shady sweetheart is found stone dead and stark naked . . . aside from a black fedora and a theatrical-looking opera cloak. There are plenty of guests and members of
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