Gollancz detection

The Cross of Lorraine The Family Man The Sports Page Second Best The Missing Item The Next Day Irrelevance! None So Blind The Backward Look What Time Is It? Middle Name To the Barest

When No Man Pursueth Quicker Than the Eye The Iron Gem The Three Numbers Nothing Like Murder No Smoking Season's Greetings! The One and Only East Earthset and Evening Star Friday the Thirteenth The Unabridged The Ultimate Crime

A collection of mystery short stories, featuring a fictional club of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers: The Acquisitive Chuckle Ph As in Phony Truth to Tell Go, Little Book! Early Sunday Morning The Obvious Factor The Pointing Finger Miss What? The Lullaby of Broadway Yankee Doodle Went to Town The Curious Omission Out of Sight

299 p. ; 22 cm

When professor and amateur sleuth Kate Fansler accompanies a fussy friend to the rocky coast of Maine to peruse the papers of a famous, recently deceased author, she is horrified to come across one of her students, dead. Which leads her to one very important question, namely, would Max stoop so low as to murder...?

Ellery Queen, master of deduction, stars in a mystery event--a new volume of Ellery Queenanigans. Q.E.D: Queen's Experiments in Detection is a collection of chilling, witty tales in which Ellery challenges the reader clue by clue to exercise his deductive powers. In Mum is the Word (the Chrysanthemum Mystery) there is a "dying message" that is "the last word" in baffling clues. The solution is absolutely fair, but will you spot the subtle clue? Or the reader can match wits with Ellery in a modern classic, Abraham Lincoln's Clue, which Anthony Boucher calls one of his favorite Queen stories: "a tale of a looking-glass world in which people create the most improbably mystifications for the most unlikely reasons, yet always leaving some trail of mad logic for Ellery (and the reader) to follow." In Half a Clue the victim drops dead at the Queens' feet, and by the time the murdered man hits the floor Ellery has deduced his murderer's identity--a unique case of "instant detection"! Q.E.D. is an invitation to sixteen stimulating adventures in such categories as "Queen's Bureau of Investigation" (Spy, Kidnaping, Anonymous Letters, Crime Syndicate, and other departments), "Puzzle Club," "Historical Detective," and "Contemporary Problems" (juvenile delinquency, overcrowded classrooms, parking, housing, and the high cost of living). For challenge, whiplash detection, and pure all around enjoyment, Ellery Queen remains unmatched, which is why critics call him "the father of the modern American detective story." CONTENTS 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 Half a Clue Eve of the Wedding Last Man to Die Payoff The Little Spy The President Regrets Abraham Lincoln's Clue