When a Western star is gunned down at a rodeo, Ellery Queen saddles up to solve the mystery. Buck Horne has roped thousands of cattle, slugged his way out of dozens of saloons, and shot plenty of men dead in the street--but always on the backlot. He's a celluloid cowboy, and his career is nearly kaput. The real box office draw is his daughter, Kit, a brawling beauty who can outshoot any rascal the studio has to offer. Desperate for a comeback, Buck joins Wild Bill Grant's traveling rodeo for a show in New York, hoping to land one last movie contract. But he has scarcely mounted his horse when he falls to the dirt. It wasn't age that made him slip--it was the bullet in his heart. Watching from the stands are Ellery Queen, debonair sleuth, and his police detective father. They are New Yorkers through and through, but to solve the rodeo killing, the Queens must learn to talk cowboy.

Product Description: When a Western star is gunned down at a rodeo, Ellery Queen saddles up to solve the mystery. Buck Horne has roped thousands of cattle, slugged his way out of dozens of saloons, and shot plenty of men dead in the street--but always on the backlot...read more

Product Description: MysteryLarge Print EditionIts April 1944 and Ellery Queen has been working for the military making films in Hollywood. Driving through Death Valley on his way home, his car breaks down. Stumbling over a rise in the desert, he encounters an odd man who seems to come from an earlier time, and is welcomed into his community as a sort of prophet...read more

When his car breaks down in the desert, Ellery Queen is approached by a man from an isolationist religious community who wants him to solve a baffling murder

Product Description: [Read by Robert Fass]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 scared, dragging Nancy into danger with him...read more

Product Description: [Read by Robert Fass]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 scared, dragging Nancy into danger with him...read more

Product Description: [Read by Robert Fass] From the masterly Ellery Queen comes The Black Hearts Murder, the thrilling second installment in the Mike McCall series.Where is Harlan James?He is the indicted, bail-jumping leader of Banbury's militant Black Hearts who has gone underground ...read more

Product Description: [Read by Robert Fass] From the masterly Ellery Queen comes The Black Hearts Murder, the thrilling second installment in the Mike McCall series.Where is Harlan James?He is the indicted, bail-jumping leader of Banbury's militant Black Hearts who has gone underground ...read more

[Read by Rebecca Mitchell] In Blow Hot, Blow Cold, there is an epidemic of death in the town. A killer is hiding somewhere, waiting for a chance to slay again. 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 the giant Mickey Finn. And at Shady Acres, Nancy Howell is crazy wondering who killed Lila and Larry. Is a killer even now hidden in Shady Acres, waiting for a chance to slay again?

Product Description: 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 the giant Mickey Finn...read more

Product Description: Mysteries have a way of finding Djuna, and this time a missing page from an old ship s log and the dead captain s haunted house start the ball rolling. Djuna has learned that Captain Beekman brought a treasure from his whaling trips...read more

Product Description: [Read by Mark Peckham] From the masterly Ellery Queen comes The Blue Movie Murders, the thrilling third installment in the 'Mike McCall' series. 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...read more

Product Description: 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. "Go up to Rockview," the governor tells Mike McCall, "and get me the killer!"But it isn't quite that easy...read more

Product Description: [Children's Fiction (Ages 10-12)][Read by Traber Burns] An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery Queen When those two enthusiastic fishermen, Djuna and his friend Tommy, are offered a chance to spend the summer at fish-filled Silver Lake as the guests of Miss Annie Ellery, they are overjoyed...read more

Product Description: [Children's Fiction (Ages 10-12)]When those two enthusiastic fishermen, Djuna and his friend Tommy, are offered a chance to spend the summer at fish-filled Silver Lake as the guests of Miss Annie Ellery, they are overjoyed. But great as the fishing proves to be, there is more in store: Silver Lake holds a mystery and the boys find themselves swept up in a series of exciting and dangerous adventures, including an abandoned ice-house and two fires, as they help to solve it...read more

Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small townAt the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death. The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the town’s first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years ago and never recovered. Another is engaged to the city’s rising political star, an upright man who’s already boring her. And then there’s Lola, the divorced, bohemian black sheep. Together, they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville, Queen sits back—waiting for the crime to come to him.

Product Description: [Read by Mark Peckham] From the masterly Ellery Queen comes The Campus Murders, the thrilling first installment in the Mike McCall series.The co-ed missing from Tisquanto State is the daughter of Governor Sam Holland's rival for reelection - and best friend...read more

Product Description: 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 the governor understands ...read more

Product Description: [Read by Robert Fass] How do you stop a killer who seems to strike at random? -- The silent rush of footsteps, the muffled shriek, the ever-tightening noose of exotic silk . . . the mark of the Cat. The Cat had claimed number nine...read more