- Fiction, Police, Detective and mystery stories, American
It’s Christmas in Chicago, and Inspector Richard Queen is enjoying a busman’s holiday at a conference on gangland violence—but his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, is bored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia: A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified.
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Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Ellery Queen
- First published
- 1932
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Severn House, F.A. Stokes, Triangle Books
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9781453289495
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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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