''Murder on Christmas day'' is the newspaper headline no one wanted to read...

A true classic from the golden age of crime fiction.

''Brilliant'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

When a small-town schoolteacher is discovered dead, beheaded, and tied to a T-shaped cross on December 25th, Ellery Queen is intrigued enough to take a closer look. But when he arrives, Queen is met with too few clues and too little evidence to produce a satisfactory verdict, even for a master sleuth such as himself, and so returns home, defeated.

But when an identical murder occurs - followed by several more - Queen discovers a horrific connection to a strange cult. This is a disturbing puzzle unlike anything he''s encountered before, and it will take all of his powers of deduction to uncover the killer.

''Murder on Christmas day'' is the newspaper headline no one wanted to read...

A true classic from the golden age of crime fiction.

''Brilliant'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

When a small-town schoolteacher is discovered dead, beheaded, and tied to a T-shaped cross on December 25th, Ellery Queen is intrigued enough to take a closer look. But when he arrives, Queen is met with too few clues and too little evidence to produce a satisfactory verdict, even for a master sleuth such as himself, and so returns home, defeated.

But when an identical murder occurs - followed by several more - Queen discovers a horrific connection to a strange cult. This is a disturbing puzzle unlike anything he''s encountered before, and it will take all of his powers of deduction to uncover the killer.

''Murder on Christmas day'' is the newspaper headline no one wanted to read...

A true classic from the golden age of crime fiction.

''Brilliant'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

When a small-town schoolteacher is discovered dead, beheaded, and tied to a T-shaped cross on December 25th, Ellery Queen is intrigued enough to take a closer look. But when he arrives, Queen is met with too few clues and too little evidence to produce a satisfactory verdict, even for a master sleuth such as himself, and so returns home, defeated.

But when an identical murder occurs - followed by several more - Queen discovers a horrific connection to a strange cult. This is a disturbing puzzle unlike anything he''s encountered before, and it will take all of his powers of deduction to uncover the killer.