Ellery Queen - Böcker

Queen's Bureau of Investigation is now open for business-and in each department of this new enterprise Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise the brilliant, ingenious, and at times startling talents of his crime-lab mind. For to the bureau com...

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Since his first novel, Ellery Queen has been in the top ranks of the world's detective-story writers. He has been equally successful with short stories and novelettes written for magazines. This rare volume is a collection of some of Queen's best,...

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Let Ellery Queen clue you in on his special brand of high tension, brain-teasing mystery! This collection consists of novelettes and short stories from Queen's many escapades. Stories include "e;Mum Is the Word,"e; "e;Object Lesson,&qu...

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John Vallancourt, the cool, calm diplomat, is worried stiff. A dear friend is dead and his daughter Nancy is missing. John fears the worst-and the worst is Nancy's sweetheart Keith Rollins. Keith is the prime suspect in the case and he is running ...

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Where is Harlan James?He is the indicted, bail-jumping leader of Banbury's militant Black Hearts who has gone underground ... but whose rage, still heard on tape, is edging the city towards interracial terror. Harlan James calls for violence-for b...

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There is an epidemic of death in the town. Lila Connor, neighborhood flirt and sex goddess, lay dead in her home, victim of an ill-placed letter opener. Larry Connor, successful accountant and distraught husband, lay dead in his office, slain by t...

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Blue film and blood-red murder!All Hollywood producer Ben Sloane had wanted was to find Sol Dahlman, the mysterious film genius who had made The Wild Nymph-and now Sloane is dead. "e;Go up to Rockview,"e; the governor tells Mike McCall, &q...

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The coed missing from Tisquanto State is the daughter of Governor Sam Holland's rival for reelection-and best friend. But she is more than that. She is Laura Thornton, a human being-somehow the pawn and victim of angry student upheavals not even t...

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This was cold-blooded murder!The Syndicate-led by gangster Larry Cutter-is trying to take over Iroquois. They want the town, mayor, and police chief in their pocket. So they kill chief Andy Saxon and one of his top men. Then they move in to clean ...

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When Barney Street, the fixer, was in Holland in World War II, his life had been saved by a German soldier.Now Barney is dead and his two million dollar estate is left entirely to the soldier who saved him, Milo Hacha. But that fortune comes with ...

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Disc jockey Tutter King has it made. Every time he spins a platter on King's Session, gold comes out: TV earnings, returns on his secret holdings in recording companies-the old payola that some bright young men think only their rightful due.Tutter...

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An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery QueenPolice captain Bartholdi sometimes indulged himself in a harmless fantasy. His thoughts, he would imagine, were irresponsible imps that wriggled out of his head and scampered around with an abandon t...

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An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery QueenThe four of them had only two things in common-their name and a love for the ladies. John Boce was a no-account accountant who lusted after food, drink, cars, and women. John Thompson was a secretive...

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Old Slater O'Shea, the golden goose, was ruler of a peculiar roost. A gaggle of free-loading O'Sheas were lazing around the mansion, letting Slater foot the bills, while they waited for him to die and leave them his money. But Uncle Slater was in ...

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"e;Let's face it, Alex: you were the KGB's top assassin, and they paid you off. Just as we might. A cushy lieutenant-colonelcy in Tokyo, riding pour le sport, a yacht, your pick of Eurasian dolls ... Like? We can do you better in the USA, Alex...

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Tim Corrigan is up to his eye-patch in scandal, intrigue, and wide-open murderThe banners waved, the crowd cheered, the reporters rushed toward the candidate as he made his way to the speaker's platform. And then a shot rang out, the candidate clu...

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An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery QueenDr. Harry Brown is a competent, respectable practitioner of the time-honored art of medicine-until the day old man Gresham, with his millions of dollars, failing heart, and young spouse, hires him. S...

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All police sergeant Burt March wanted was a chance to recover from a recent brush with the Grim Reaper. Sun, fun, and a willing broad-that was all he needed. But the broad had along a sugar daddy with his own private squad of goons with guns. And ...

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The nice mild man named Edward Tollman had a problem. His lovely wife was missing, and he wanted her back-fast. So he went to a fellow whose specialty was solving problems like that-a very private detective called Barney Burgess. Burgess' methods ...

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Leslie Gibson was a wealthy, beautiful, seventeen-year-old brat-out for kicks at any price. And Leslie had decided that Reid Rance, adventurer and travel guide extraordinaire, was just the man to show her the hot spots of Mexico. But touring led t...

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An exciting novel by the master of mysterySome men retire on a hundred grand-or buy their wives mink coats with days of the week sewn in the lining ... or fly to Rio for a good cup of coffee-but not Jim Morgan. Jim had a hundred thousand all right...

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An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery QueenMadman or murderer? That was the question and it was Police Inspector Omar Collins who had come up with the answer. All he had to go on was: the victim-Earl Genneman, wealthy president of Genneman La...

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Who killed Cox, the robber? Was it Ruth Tully, who visited Crandall Cox on the night of his death, and who might have decided to quench a torrid past with a spray of bullets? What about Sandra Jean, the knock-'em-dead beauty, who knew more than sh...

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How could a man have been murdered when he was found alone in his study, a gun in his hand, and the door locked from the inside? It had to be suicide, the police figured. Although there was no suicide note, there was a letter proving conclusively ...

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"e;Come on baby. This has to look real,"e; Casey said. "e;Relax."e; Immediately Sally's body went stiff. "e;Do I have to?"e; "e;You've got to. Now loosen up, get into the spirit of the thing before-"e; She slid her ...

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The killer is an expert. He has climbed ten stories in the Manhattan blackout, found and dispatched his victim amidst the men and women trapped in the building. The night drags on. Nerves wear thin and inhibitions disappear. Anyone, including a be...

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An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery QueenIs the lovely young heiress hiding somewhere among the shiny steel towers of Manhattan? Or is she the horribly mutilated corpse hauled up from the sewers of the city? Captain Timothy Corrigan, the co...

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An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery QueenThey are two brilliant madmen who think killing is fun. A freak of the law has set them free, and now a hidden killer, acting as judge, jury, and executioner, threatens them both. Enter Tim Corrigan,...

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An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery QueenThe horribly crushed body that crashed onto the Manhattan pavement has at least two names, several passports, and an address book full of important friends-among them, a millionaire roue; his exotic,...

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Tim Corrigan, the eye-patched detective with the knack for murderous situations, plunges into the wildest, farthest-out caper of his career. His assignment leads him to a splendid but terrified harem of veiled beauties, a millionaire sultan with a...

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