The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a small towns Christmas. Its Christmas in Chicago, and Detective Richard Queen is enjoying a busmans holiday at a conference on gangland violencebut his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, is bored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia. A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified. Ellery hustles his father into his roadster and heads east, since there is nothing hed like better for Christmas than a juicy, gruesome puzzle. When the Queens arrive in Arroyo, they learn that the victim was an eccentric atheist, but not the sort to make enemies. What initially looks to be the work of a sadistic cult turns out to be something far more sinister. In the months ahead, more victims will turn up all over the worldall killed in the same horrifying manner. It will take several bodies before Ellery divines the clue that unlocks the mystery of the Christmas crucifixion.

Product Description: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.] [Read by Scott Harrison] Ellery and his father, the irascible Inspector Queen, are trapped in a mountain retreat by a raging forest fire with an odd assortment of characters, and a dangerous killer as well! At the isolated mountain lodge, trouble comes in twos...read more

Product Description: This book written by Ellery Queen, the famous radio detective story man, is a history of the detective crime short story as revealed bt th 125 most important books published on that subject since 1845.

Product Description: Mandarin Press is a premier publishing house for foreign literature, but to those at the top of this enterprise, there is little more beautiful than a rare stamp. As Donald Kirk, publisher and philatelist, prepares his office for a banquet, an unfamiliar man comes to call...read more

Product Description: THE SPANISH CAPE MYSTERY is a study in jealousy, revenge and mistaken identity. The setting is a brooding headland called the Spanish Cape. The cast contains the monstrous Captain Kidd, the ill-fated David Cumer and his beautiful niece Rosa, and Rosa's suitors...read more

The escapades of Nero Wolfe, Inspector Maigret, Lew Archer, Ellery Queen, Nick Velvet, and others are recounted in stories of detectives who are champions of justice, truth, and order

Product Description: When Abigail Doorn was wheeled into the operation room at the Dutch Memorial Hospital, her face was strangely blue and bloated. A wire had been tightly wound around her neck. The strongest suspect, because he stood to benefit by the death of this wealthy old woman, was her protege, the famous Dr...read more

Editor Ellery Queen provides an entire gallery of mystery writers, including H. G. Wells, Patricia Highsmith, Victor Canning, and Hugh Pentecost, in a collection of twenty baffling tales of suspense and intrigue

Such authors as Patricia Highsmith, Julian Symons, Isaac Asimov, Hugh Pentecost, and Hal Ellson are featured in a collection of tales which includes the best mystery stories from the years 1963 through 1977

A double-dose of Ellery Queen includes tales of a payroll robbery-murder in a small American town and the brutal murder of a notorious man-about-town

Gathers nearly twenty mysteries whose solutions depend on the accuracy, reliability, or honesty of witnesses

Dr. Harry Brown discovers the corpse of an unknown woman in his apartment and the detective, Ellery Queen, investigates the baffling murder of a scientist

An anthology of tales by Asimov, Wodehouse, Rendell, and other noted authors focuses on the experiences of women who have become lost, either literally or figuratively, in their individual worlds

Ellery investigates the murder of an unpopular philanderer and a flock of relatives become suspects when the rich man who supported them is found poisoned

Product Description: "A collection of short stories from the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines."