he Adventures of
Ellery Queen
(1933-34) A strange and frightening world...where the body won't stay put during a "mad" party! Where a postage stamp delivers an addict, and a thief! Where a bowtie and a shirt are cremated after a murder! Where the corpse is in the closet, and the clothes are on the floor! This is the mysterious world of Ellery Queen. As always, he plays fair, sharing every clue; as always, the solution is both surprising and logical; as always, the action and mystery are irresistible. A collection of short stories that lack the depth of the novels (of course!) but delightful nonetheless. The best of them: The Mad Tea Party. TV adaptation: "Adventure of the Mad Tea Party" (Hutton/Wayne series). (Click on the cover to read more...) he Chinese Orange Mystery (1934) There were many odd things about the fat man. No one had seen him enter the luxurious suite, and no one knew his name. Somehow all his clothes had been put on him backwards, and all the furniture around him reversed. The room in which he was found was locked from the inside, and aside from him, was empty. It was unlike any case Ellery Queen had ever seen--except for two hard facts. The man was dead. And it was his baffling job to find the murderer. EQ's deductions, though arguable, are a bit difficult to follow, and his reconstruction hard to visualize. Cleverly worked out, though. Movie (more or less): The Mandarin Mystery. (Click on the cover to read more...) |
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Spanish Cape Mystery (1935) Men hated John Marco just as much as women adored him. For other men's women were his meat, high-priced sex his trade, and it was fitting that he died as he had made love, absolutely naked. The moment Ellery Queen unwrapped the long black opera cloak from Marco's nude corpse, he knew the naked truth would be even nastier. Every guest at the isolated mansion had a shameful tie with Marco--but which one had twisted it into a stranger's knot...? Red herrings abound, and while EQ's solution plays fair and the deductions are valid, the murderer may be guessed by a few. Some consider it the most logically pure EQ. Movie: The Spanish Cape Mystery. (Click on the cover to read more...) |
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Introduction |
Floor Plan | Q.B.I. |
List of Suspects | Whodunit?
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