- Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Murder, Police, Investigation
A wealthy publisher and collector of precious stones and Chinese postage stamps has a luxurious suite in a hotel that serves to handle his non-publishing business and the comings and goings of his staff, his relatives, and his female friends.
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Cool, resolved, plot-driven and classical in form.
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Ellery Queen
- First published
- 1934
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd, Stokes Pub Co, Penguin
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English, heb
- ISBN
- 9785553681159
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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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