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The beautiful young Laurel Hill asks Ellery Queen to investigate a series of unusual anonymous gifts that have been received by her father, Leander Hill, half of Hill and Priam, Wholesale Jewelers.
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Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Ellery Queen
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 236
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Little, Brown, Mai tian chu ban gu fen yu xian gong si
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Chinese, English, heb
- ISBN
- 9781504020008
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Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel (David) Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905–September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905–April 3, 1971), to write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered 42 years, Ellery Queen served as both author's name and that of the detective-hero. Movies, radio shows, and television shows have been based on their works. The two, particularly Dannay, were also responsible for co-founding and directing Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, considered one of the most influential English crime fiction ma
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