About this item
Let Ellery Queen clue you in on his special brand of high tension, brain-teasing mystery! This collection consists of novelettes and short stories from Queen's many escapades. Stories include "Mum Is the Word," "Object Lesson," "No Parking," "No Place to Live," "Miracles Do Happen," "The Lonely Bride," "Mystery at the Library of Congress," "Dead Ringer," "The Broken T," "Half a Clue," "Eve of the Wedding," "Last Man to Die," "Payoff," "The Little Spy," "The President Regrets," and "Abraham Lincoln's Clue."
About the Author
Ellery Queen was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971) , as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee's death in 1971.
