Ellery Queen
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Based on the Sherlock Holmes film: Ellery Queen matches wits with the Baker Street sleuth to unmask Jack the Ripper.
Ellery Queen is struggling over his latest book when a friend brings him a mystery. It is a journal, written by a Victorian doctor, of reports on the remarkable adventures of his close friend, a brilliant detective named Sherlock Holmes. Queen’s surprise turns to amazement as he turns its pages and discovers the lost...
Ellery Queen is struggling over his latest book when a friend brings him a mystery. It is a journal, written by a Victorian doctor, of reports on the remarkable adventures of his close friend, a brilliant detective named Sherlock Holmes. Queen’s surprise turns to amazement as he turns its pages and discovers the lost...
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A murder in a crowded theater leaves a pack of suspects, but only one clue. 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...
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When Ellery Queen first meets the award-winning novelist Karen Leith, it is at a party held to celebrate her most recent prize in literature. The next time he hears of her, she is dead — murdered, so the police suspect, by the daughter of her fiancé, the eminent cancer researcher Dr. John MacClure. With no other suspects and only circumstantial evidence at hand, master detective Ellery Queen delves into the reclusive writer's past to uncover
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Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time. In "The Three Students," Ellery is challenged to solve an imaginary riddle devised by three members of the Puzzle Club. He must decide which of the titular trio (handily named Adams, Barnes, and Carver) stole a valuable ring from a university president's desk.
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Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time. In "The Honest Swindler," Ellery is challenged to solve an imaginary riddle devised by three members of the Puzzle Club. He must explain how an old prospector could have spent five years on a fruitless uranium hunt and still have returned every penny of his backers' money.
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"The offices of foreign literature publisher and renowned stamp collector Donald Kirk are often host to strange activities, but the most recent occurrence the murder of an unknown caller, found dead in an empty waiting room is unlike any that has come before. Nobody, it seems, entered or exited the room, and yet the crime scene clearly has been manipulated, leaving everything in the room turned backwards and upside down. Stuck through the back of...
7) The Odd Man
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Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time. In "The Odd Man," Ellery is challenged to solve an imaginary riddle devised by three members of the Puzzle Club. With very little information to go on, he must correctly answer to his confreres which of their three imagined suspects is a secret criminal.
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En plena canícula de agosto, un asesino en serie que se hace llamar El Gato siembra el terror en las calles de Manhattan. Selecciona a sus víctimas al azar y las estrangula con una cuerda de seda. Rosa salmón para las mujeres; azul cielo para los hombres. Y escapa sin dejar huella. A medida que los cadáveres aumentan y con una ciudad presa del pánico, Ellery Queen decide abandonar su retiro detectivesco para unirse al equipo investigador del...
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En la hacienda de Cabo Español, hogar de ricos y malvados, Walter Godfrey da una fiesta por todo lo alto. Pero la velada se verá interrumpida por un pistolero tuerto que secuestra a su hija y al tío de esta, confundiéndolo con su amante John Marco. El detective Ellery Queen, de vacaciones en Cabo Español, logra rescatar a la hija de Godfrey. Pero poco durará la alegría: a la mañana siguiente de su liberación aparece asesinado John Marco,...
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Howard van Horn, hijo del multimillonario Diedrich van Horn, despierta en un asilo para indigentes en el Bowery neoyorquino. Tiene los nudillos lastimados, costras de sangre en la cabeza, los bolsillos vacíos e impulsos suicidas. Ha estado inconsciente durante 19 días. Otro caso más de los recurrentes episodios de amnesia que han destruido su carrera. Pero en esta ocasión parece ser más grave al comprobar que la sangre no es suya. ¿Habrá
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Durante un viaje en coche, Ellery Queen y su padre se topan con un increíble incendio que les obliga a desviarse de su camino. Ambos encuentran refugio en una mansión propiedad del misterioso doctor John Xavier, un cirujano que experimenta con animales. La gente que habita la propiedad, testigo de los experimentos del cirujano, no podría ser más variopinta: dos hermanos siameses que esperan una operación para separarles, un cleptómano que compulsivamente...
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Georg Khalkis, eminente marchante de arte de Nueva York, fallece de un ataque al corazón tras haber pasado años recluido en su casa a causa de una ceguera degenerativa. Tras las exequias, su testamento desaparece. Las pesquisas de la policía no parecen dar fruto, motivo por el cual deciden pedirle consejo a un obstinado ratón de biblioteca, ávido lector de novelas policíacas. En el que será su primer caso como detective, Ellery Queen seguirá...
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¡Que lo linchen! El cadáver de la frágil Fanny Adams todavía está caliente cuando la sed de venganza se apodera del pueblo de Shinn Corners. La única artista y benefactora del pueblo ha aparecido con el cráneo destrozado y sus vecinos exigen "ojo por ojo". Poco importa que no hayan huellas dactilares, ni manchas de sangre, ni testigos. Todas las sospechas recaen sobre Josef Kowalsky, un vagabundo forastero que es detenido con una cantidad
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Gloria Guild, millonaria cantante que fascinó a los americanos en los años 30, es asesinada a tiros en su loft neoyorquino el mismo día de su regreso de Londres en compalía de una prima perdida. La única clave para resolver el misterio son cuatro letras que ha dejado garabateadas en su libreta: F, A, C, E. Todo parece indicar que el instigador del asesinato ha sido Carlos Armando, último marido de la diva retirada, un cazafortunas con una larga...
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Ellery Queen, cerebro privilegiado, hombre de agudísimos sentidos y una aptitud innata para resolver misterios. ¿Quién puede resistirse a semejante tarjeta de visita? Esta recopilación de relatos de intriga y suspense nos permitirán acompañar al hábil detective en sus pesquisas. Cada situación es un nuevo desafío. Unos estudiantes universitarios a los que pretende enseñar pero que parecen inmunes a la razón. Un ladrón de libros violento....
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"When a washed up Hollywood cowboy-turned-circus rodeo actor is shot dead in the midst of his performance at a New York sports-palace, in front of thousands of onlookers, it seems obvious that someone would have seen the perpetrator of the crime--or at the very least, recovered the gun. But when the ensuing investigation fails to turn up any evidence, even after the newsreels made in the moment are reviewed, the net of suspicion widens across the...
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A corpse in a department store window offers a gruesome puzzle for Ellery Queen. The windows of French's department store are one of New York's great attractions. Year-round, their displays show off the finest in fashion, art, and home décor, and tourists and locals alike make a point of stopping to see what's on offer. One afternoon, as the board debates a merger upstairs, a salesgirl begins a demonstration in one of the windows, showing off French's...
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The silent rush of footsteps, the muffled shriek, the ever-tightening noose of exotic silk -- the mark of the Cat. The Cat had claimed number nine. The Cat had nine kills, but Ellery Queen found number ten alive and offered the victim temptingly to the killer. The trap was baited, and Ellery and the police poised for the strike that had to come. But the strangler struck elsewhere--and Queen's heart chilled at the thought of what he would find.
19) Ten days' wonder
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When an amnesiac friend wakes up with blood on his hands—and it seems to be someone else’s—Ellery Queen takes the case in this “enigmatic entertainment” (Kirkus Reviews).
Howard Van Horn wakes up in a Bowery flophouse. His knuckles are bruised, his head is bloodied, all his valuables are gone, and he has a strong urge to leap out the window. He has been unconscious for nineteen days—another...
Howard Van Horn wakes up in a Bowery flophouse. His knuckles are bruised, his head is bloodied, all his valuables are gone, and he has a strong urge to leap out the window. He has been unconscious for nineteen days—another...