Author: Ellery Queen
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453229256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A murder in a crowded Broadway theater presents a full house of suspects—the first in this classic mystery series starring Ellery Queen! Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it’s packed to the gills with action, explosions, and gunfire. In fact, Gunplay is so loud that no one notices the killing of Monte Field. In a sold-out theater, Field is found dead partway through the second act, surrounded by empty seats. The police hold the crowd and call for the one man who can untangle this daring murder: Inspector Richard Queen. With the help of his son Ellery, a bibliophile and novelist whose imagination can solve any crime, the Inspector attacks this seemingly impenetrable mystery. Anyone in the theater could have killed the unscrupulous lawyer, and several had the motive. Only Ellery Queen, in his debut novel, can decipher the clue of the dead man’s missing top hat.
The Roman Hat Mystery
Author: Ellery Queen
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453229256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A murder in a crowded Broadway theater presents a full house of suspects—the first in this classic mystery series starring Ellery Queen! Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it’s packed to the gills with action, explosions, and gunfire. In fact, Gunplay is so loud that no one notices the killing of Monte Field. In a sold-out theater, Field is found dead partway through the second act, surrounded by empty seats. The police hold the crowd and call for the one man who can untangle this daring murder: Inspector Richard Queen. With the help of his son Ellery, a bibliophile and novelist whose imagination can solve any crime, the Inspector attacks this seemingly impenetrable mystery. Anyone in the theater could have killed the unscrupulous lawyer, and several had the motive. Only Ellery Queen, in his debut novel, can decipher the clue of the dead man’s missing top hat.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453229256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A murder in a crowded Broadway theater presents a full house of suspects—the first in this classic mystery series starring Ellery Queen! Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it’s packed to the gills with action, explosions, and gunfire. In fact, Gunplay is so loud that no one notices the killing of Monte Field. In a sold-out theater, Field is found dead partway through the second act, surrounded by empty seats. The police hold the crowd and call for the one man who can untangle this daring murder: Inspector Richard Queen. With the help of his son Ellery, a bibliophile and novelist whose imagination can solve any crime, the Inspector attacks this seemingly impenetrable mystery. Anyone in the theater could have killed the unscrupulous lawyer, and several had the motive. Only Ellery Queen, in his debut novel, can decipher the clue of the dead man’s missing top hat.
The Door Between
Author: Ellery Queen
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN: 1625671903
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Raised in Japan by American expatriates, Karen Leith now lives a reclusive life in New York, known chiefly for her highly regarded novels, of which the latest has won a major American literary award. When she is found on the floor behind her desk, surrounded by blood, it looks like foul play. But the only possible suspect is Leith’s future daughter-in-law, Eva, who has recently become engaged. Eva swears by her innocence, even though she was the last to hear Leith alive and the first to find her dead. Eva was waiting outside Leith’s office to share the happy news and maintains that no one entered through that door, while the room's other possible exit was locked. The only one who can help her clear her name is mystery writer Ellery Queen, an acquaintance of the victim through New York’s literary circles. Queen intends to unravel the locked-room mystery, but with no murder weapon and too many incriminating fingerprints, this case just might be one even he can’t solve.
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN: 1625671903
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Raised in Japan by American expatriates, Karen Leith now lives a reclusive life in New York, known chiefly for her highly regarded novels, of which the latest has won a major American literary award. When she is found on the floor behind her desk, surrounded by blood, it looks like foul play. But the only possible suspect is Leith’s future daughter-in-law, Eva, who has recently become engaged. Eva swears by her innocence, even though she was the last to hear Leith alive and the first to find her dead. Eva was waiting outside Leith’s office to share the happy news and maintains that no one entered through that door, while the room's other possible exit was locked. The only one who can help her clear her name is mystery writer Ellery Queen, an acquaintance of the victim through New York’s literary circles. Queen intends to unravel the locked-room mystery, but with no murder weapon and too many incriminating fingerprints, this case just might be one even he can’t solve.
Enigma of China
Author: Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125002580X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The eighth novel in Qiu Xiaolong's acclaimed Chinese crime series sees Inspector Chen confronted by a terrible choice between Party politics or his principles - with his career at stake
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125002580X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The eighth novel in Qiu Xiaolong's acclaimed Chinese crime series sees Inspector Chen confronted by a terrible choice between Party politics or his principles - with his career at stake
City of Ghosts
Author: Kelli Stanley
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250018056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Miranda Corbie's back. Noir will never be the same. And Kelli Stanley will once again mesmerize readers with the most thrilling novel yet in her award-winning series. June, 1940. For the United States, war is on the horizon. For Miranda Corbie, private investigator and erstwhile escort, there are debts to be paid and memories—long-suppressed and willfully forgotten—to be resurrected. Enter the U.S. State Department and the man who helped Miranda get her PI license. A man she owes. A man who asks her to track a chemistry professor here in San Francisco whom he suspects is a spy for the Nazis. Playing along may get Miranda a ticket to Blitz-bombed England and answers about her past...if she survives. Through sordid back alleys and art gallery halls, from drag dress nightclubs to a Nazi costume ball, Miranda's journey into fear takes her on the famed City of San Francisco streamliner and to Reno, Nevada, the Biggest Little City in the World...where she finds herself framed for a murder she never anticipated. Forced to go underground, Miranda soldiers on alone, determined to find the truth about a murder, a Nazi spy, and her own troubling past. But Miranda will have to learn the difference between reality and illusion, from despair to deceit and factual to fake, as she tries to get her life back...and navigates a City of Ghosts.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250018056
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Miranda Corbie's back. Noir will never be the same. And Kelli Stanley will once again mesmerize readers with the most thrilling novel yet in her award-winning series. June, 1940. For the United States, war is on the horizon. For Miranda Corbie, private investigator and erstwhile escort, there are debts to be paid and memories—long-suppressed and willfully forgotten—to be resurrected. Enter the U.S. State Department and the man who helped Miranda get her PI license. A man she owes. A man who asks her to track a chemistry professor here in San Francisco whom he suspects is a spy for the Nazis. Playing along may get Miranda a ticket to Blitz-bombed England and answers about her past...if she survives. Through sordid back alleys and art gallery halls, from drag dress nightclubs to a Nazi costume ball, Miranda's journey into fear takes her on the famed City of San Francisco streamliner and to Reno, Nevada, the Biggest Little City in the World...where she finds herself framed for a murder she never anticipated. Forced to go underground, Miranda soldiers on alone, determined to find the truth about a murder, a Nazi spy, and her own troubling past. But Miranda will have to learn the difference between reality and illusion, from despair to deceit and factual to fake, as she tries to get her life back...and navigates a City of Ghosts.
The Chinese Orange Mystery
Author: Ellery Queen
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453289437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
“One of the greatest riddles in Golden Age detective fiction . . . the unbridled ingenuity of its central puzzle has never been surpassed” (Kirkus Reviews). Mandarin Press is a premier publishing house for foreign literature, but to those at the top of this enterprise, there is little more beautiful than a rare stamp. As Donald Kirk, publisher and philatelist, prepares his office for a banquet, an unfamiliar man comes to call. No one recognizes him, but Kirk’s staff is used to strange characters visiting their boss, so Kirk’s secretary asks him to wait in the anteroom. Within an hour, the mysterious visitor is dead on the floor, head bashed in with a fireplace poker, and everything in the anteroom has been quite literally turned upside down. The rug is backwards; the furniture is backwards; even the dead man’s clothes have been put on front-to-back. As debonair detective Ellery Queen pries into the secrets of Mandarin Press, every clue he finds is topsy-turvy. The great sleuth must tread lightly, for walking backwards is a surefire way to step off a cliff.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453289437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
“One of the greatest riddles in Golden Age detective fiction . . . the unbridled ingenuity of its central puzzle has never been surpassed” (Kirkus Reviews). Mandarin Press is a premier publishing house for foreign literature, but to those at the top of this enterprise, there is little more beautiful than a rare stamp. As Donald Kirk, publisher and philatelist, prepares his office for a banquet, an unfamiliar man comes to call. No one recognizes him, but Kirk’s staff is used to strange characters visiting their boss, so Kirk’s secretary asks him to wait in the anteroom. Within an hour, the mysterious visitor is dead on the floor, head bashed in with a fireplace poker, and everything in the anteroom has been quite literally turned upside down. The rug is backwards; the furniture is backwards; even the dead man’s clothes have been put on front-to-back. As debonair detective Ellery Queen pries into the secrets of Mandarin Press, every clue he finds is topsy-turvy. The great sleuth must tread lightly, for walking backwards is a surefire way to step off a cliff.
Mysteries of the Great Wall of China
Author: Karen Latchana Kenney
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 1512440132
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"Discover the fascinating mysteries surrounding the Great Wall of China. An iconic symbol, the wall's sections, trenches, and barriers stretch across more than 5,500 miles. How and why was it built? Scientists have many theories, but plenty of mysteries remain."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
ISBN: 1512440132
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"Discover the fascinating mysteries surrounding the Great Wall of China. An iconic symbol, the wall's sections, trenches, and barriers stretch across more than 5,500 miles. How and why was it built? Scientists have many theories, but plenty of mysteries remain."--Provided by publisher.
Death À L'Orange
Author: Nancy Fairbanks
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425185247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A culinary tour of France is a dream come true for aspiring food writer Carolyn Blue, but as she and her family travel through Normandy and the Loire Valley with a group of academics, she suddenly finds murder on the menu. Original.
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425185247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A culinary tour of France is a dream come true for aspiring food writer Carolyn Blue, but as she and her family travel through Normandy and the Loire Valley with a group of academics, she suddenly finds murder on the menu. Original.
The Dutch Shoe Mystery
Author: Ellery Queen
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1471920631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A millionaire ... murdered as she was about to be saved... 'A new Ellery Queen book has always been something to look forward to for many years now' Agatha Christie 'Ellery Queen is the American detective story' New York Times The son of a police detective, Ellery Queen is no stranger to death, and has seen more than his fair share of dead bodies. Yet the thought of seeing a living person sliced open makes him ill. So when a doctor invites him to sit in on an operation, Queen braces himself. The patient is a millionaire in a diabetic coma. To prepare her for surgery, the hospital staff has stabilised her blood sugar level and wheeled her to the operating theatre - but just before the first incision, the doctors realise she is dead, strangled while lying unconscious. Now Ellery Queen moves from observer to detective in his most mysterious case yet.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1471920631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
A millionaire ... murdered as she was about to be saved... 'A new Ellery Queen book has always been something to look forward to for many years now' Agatha Christie 'Ellery Queen is the American detective story' New York Times The son of a police detective, Ellery Queen is no stranger to death, and has seen more than his fair share of dead bodies. Yet the thought of seeing a living person sliced open makes him ill. So when a doctor invites him to sit in on an operation, Queen braces himself. The patient is a millionaire in a diabetic coma. To prepare her for surgery, the hospital staff has stabilised her blood sugar level and wheeled her to the operating theatre - but just before the first incision, the doctors realise she is dead, strangled while lying unconscious. Now Ellery Queen moves from observer to detective in his most mysterious case yet.
The Ice House
Author: Minette Walters
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312427535
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
When a decomposed body turns up in the ice house of Streech Grange manor, Chief Inspector Walsh is assigned to investigate the possibility that the corpse is the long-missing husband of owner Phoebe Maybury.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312427535
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
When a decomposed body turns up in the ice house of Streech Grange manor, Chief Inspector Walsh is assigned to investigate the possibility that the corpse is the long-missing husband of owner Phoebe Maybury.
Mandarin Yellow
Author: Steven M. Roth
Publisher: Steven M. Roth
ISBN: 9781937387204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Why would a burglar break into a Washington, DC art gallery and steal an historic fountain pen worth $2200, but leave behind other art and cultural objects worth tens of thousands of dollars each? And why would someone else later commit murder to protect the burglar's secret? These are some of the questions that confront Socrates Cheng - an American of Chinese and Greek heritage - in Steven M. Roth's intricate murder mystery - Mandarin Yellow - as Socrates investigates the burglary and attempts to recover the pen, all in an effort to curry favor with his lover's estranged father who is the leader of a Washington and Shanghai based criminal Triad. In a search that takes him from Georgetown to Chinatown and elsewhere in Washington, Socrates finds himself threatened, physically assaulted, suspected of having committed murder, jailed for a time, and constantly confronted by conflicts arising out of his three disparate cultures. Yet he is neither daunted nor deterred by these obstacles. Instead, Socrates draws upon his deep knowledge of vintage fountain pens, Chinese history, and the Mandarin language to puzzle out the complex motives behind the burglary and murders, until he finally uncovers the identities of the criminals and makes a discovery that forever changes his life and the lives of everyone else involved.
Publisher: Steven M. Roth
ISBN: 9781937387204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Why would a burglar break into a Washington, DC art gallery and steal an historic fountain pen worth $2200, but leave behind other art and cultural objects worth tens of thousands of dollars each? And why would someone else later commit murder to protect the burglar's secret? These are some of the questions that confront Socrates Cheng - an American of Chinese and Greek heritage - in Steven M. Roth's intricate murder mystery - Mandarin Yellow - as Socrates investigates the burglary and attempts to recover the pen, all in an effort to curry favor with his lover's estranged father who is the leader of a Washington and Shanghai based criminal Triad. In a search that takes him from Georgetown to Chinatown and elsewhere in Washington, Socrates finds himself threatened, physically assaulted, suspected of having committed murder, jailed for a time, and constantly confronted by conflicts arising out of his three disparate cultures. Yet he is neither daunted nor deterred by these obstacles. Instead, Socrates draws upon his deep knowledge of vintage fountain pens, Chinese history, and the Mandarin language to puzzle out the complex motives behind the burglary and murders, until he finally uncovers the identities of the criminals and makes a discovery that forever changes his life and the lives of everyone else involved.