Aug 20, 2012Abbess rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
First Ellery Queen novel, written as a contest entry (they won) in 1929. Character of Queen is quite different from what he later became and is best remembered as; in this novel and until around the late 1930s (about 10 books or so) he was an obvious Philo Vance style know-it-all Man-About-Town sort. Entertaining, but stuffy in spots.
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