44 results for "Mystery"

The Fourth Side of the Triangle

Ellery Queen
Detective Richard Queen is determined to find the killer of a young fashion designer, even if he has to enlist the help of his father. A murder takes place in a Park Avenue penthouse and there's bound to be a suspect or three...The McKell family are all under suspicion. Ashton McKell is a wealthy and respectable businessman who had a relationship with the deceased and so this made him number one suspect. Lutetia McKell, his wife, was the second to be arrested, and their handsome son Dane, who falls in love all too easily, the third.
Random House Publishing Group 1983-12-12 192 pages

The Dragon's Teeth

Ellery Queen
Eccentric multimillionaire Cadmus Cole hires Ellery Queen to investigate a case but won't say what it is. When Cole dies mysteriously at sea, Queen and his partner, Beau Rummell, must navigate a thicket of complications that includes a $50 million legacy, two beautiful, avaricious women vying for it, and even a phony Ellery Queen. This confection, now available in audio form, was first published in 1939.
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 1971 224 pages

Halfway House

Ellery Queen
Called to an urgent meeting at a mysterious shack in the middle of nowhere, attorney Bill Angell finds his brother-in-law, traveling salesman Joe Wilson, stabbed. With Joe's dying breath, he manages to convey that his murderer was a veiled woman. Was it the wild-eyed woman who had sped past Bill on his way up the dark road to the shack? To help him unravel the mystery, Bill calls on his old friend Ellery Queen. But first Queen will have to unravel the victim's double life - starting with the shack where he's been found dead, smack dab between two very different worlds.
Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Incorporated 2018-03-20 268 pages

The Last Woman in His Life

Ellery Queen
"Murder for the millions. John Levering Benedict III had more of everything than most men. More money, more mansions, more cars, and most of all, more women--including three ex-wives with little in common but their extraordinary physiques. For Ellery Queen the question was, which one of these beauties had bashed in Benedict's skull with a hunk of iron statuary? The clues were many, but enigmatic. A low-cut evening gown, a pair of women's white gloves, and a show girl's green wig. All had been planted at the scene of the brutal crime. But by whom, and for what purpose? And what was the hidden meaning of "home," the last word of the dying man? And most important, who was the last woman in John Benedict's life? These, Ellery knew, were all pieces in a bizarre jigsaw puzzle. But what strange picture they'd make when put together, not even he could say."--
New American Library 1971 144 pages

Face to Face

Ellery Queen
When a popular singer goes from retired to dead the day before New Year's Eve, Ellery Queen is certain it's murder. Luckily, just before she died, the victim managed to scribble out a single mysterious word: F A C E. Unfortunately, no one knows what it means. With the help of a new acquaintance, Inspector Harry Burke from Scotland, Queen uncovers even more baffling clues written in invisible ink. Enter the beautiful, discarded conquests of the dead singer's playboy husband, who prove a dangerous distraction for both Queen and Burke. Will erotic temptation derail the investigation? If it does, hearts will be broken, and what's worse -- someone will get away with murder.
Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Incorporated 2018-03-20 242 pages

Dead Man's Tale

Ellery Queen
[Read by Mark Peckham] A jealous widow won't rest until she gets back everything that is rightfully hers in this exciting tale by Ellery Queen. hen Barney Street, the fixer, was in Holland in World War II, his life had been saved by a German soldier. Now Barney is dead and his two million dollar estate is left entirely to the soldier who saved him, Milo Hacha. But that fortune comes with a death sentence, for Barney's widow, Estelle, won't rest until she gets back everything that is rightfully hers. She sends Steve Longacre, once one of Barney's boys, to Europe to find Hacha, trailing him from Holland to Switzerland, to Vienna, and finally to Prague. Longacre has Hacha is on the run, fleeing love, money, and a velvet-lined coffin . . .
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 1973-05 152 pages

The Copper Frame

Ellery Queen
[Read by Mark Peckham] This was cold-blooded murder! The Syndicate - led by gangster Larry Cutter - are trying to take over Iroquois. They want the town, its mayor and police chief in their pocket. So they kill chief Andy Saxon and one of his top men. Then they move in to clean up. But they had reckoned without with the chief's son, Lieutenant Ted Saxon. And to stop him, they will have to frame him with his own father's murder! Suspended from the force, facing trial, the whole town against him, how could Ted hope to beat Cutter's hands?
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 1975 160 pages

Death Spins the Platter

Ellery Queen
Disc jockey Tutter King has it made. Every time he spins a platter on The King s Session, gold comes TV earnings, returns on his secret holdings in recording companies the old payola that some bright young men think only their rightful due. Tutter is a gay young man-around-town who has the world dancing to his tune. He is also involved in some hanky-panky with his pretty blond assistant, Lola Arkwright. And then the roof starts to cave Senate investigating committees; the angry emergence of the wife who Lola never knew existed; the canceling of his network contract. Poor Tutter, it looks like he is going to lose everything even his life!"
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 1973-06-05 128 pages

The Copper Frame A Room to Die In

Ellery Queen
The Copper Frame This was cold-blooded murder! The Syndicate - led by gangster Larry Cutter - is trying to take over Iroquois. They want the town, mayor, and police chief in their pocket. So they kill chief Andy Saxon and one of his top men. Then they move into clean up. But they hadn't reckoned on the chief's son, Lieutenant Ted Saxon. And to stop him, they will have to frame him with his own father's murder! Suspended from the force, facing trial, the whole town against him, how could Ted hope to beat Cutter's hands? A Room to Die In How could a man have been murdered when he was found alone in his study, a gun in his hand, and the door locked from the inside? It had to be suicide, the police figured. Although there was no suicide note, there was a letter proving conclusively that Roland Nelson, over the last several months, was being blackmailed. But to his daughter, Ann, whom he had seen only spasmodically since he had left her mother when Ann was a baby, there were unanswered questions. She was convinced that her father could never have killed himself. Before she found the answers, two people were brutally garroted with a wire, one of them in her own apartment.
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 1981-08-04 173 pages