The King is Dead
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Ellery Queen's job is to keep a powerful tycoon from being murdered. The task seems simple. But this time the perfect detective comes face to face with a killer who has contrived the perfect crime. For how could King Bendigo, closely guarded behind steel doors, be shot by his brother Judah, who was being watched by Ellery in another room
Set within the brutal militaristic regime of a remote island dystopia, The King is Dead is a brilliantly structured locked-room mystery. With political overtones and elements of high technology and forensic investigation, Ellery Queen stretches the crime genre to its limits with characteristic panache.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781471910685
- Author: Ellery Queen
- Pub date: 19.06.14
- RRP: $49.99
- Format: Electronic book text
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Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen is both a fictional detective and the pen name shared by his creators, Brooklyn-born cousins Manfred B. Lee and Frederic Dannay. The character first appeared in a book that won a mystery-writing contest and was eventually published in 1928 as The Roman Hat Mystery. The amateur detective character of Ellery Queen shared an apartment with and assisted his father, the NYPD's Inspector Queen. As well as dozens of Ellery Queen novels, the cousins wrote numerous radio scripts and short stories featuring their detective, and were the joint recipients of several Edgar awards from the Mystery Writers of America, including the 1960 Grand Master Award. In their time Lee and Dannay were considered to be the foremost American writers of the Golden Age 'fair play' mystery, with Dannay said to have largely provided the plots and Lee most of the writing. The cousins also founded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1941, which is still considered one of the most influential crime fiction publications of all time. While Frederic Dannay outlived his cousin and co-author by eleven years, he retired from writing at the time of Lee's death.
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