The American Gun Mystery - Softcover

Queen, Ellery

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345282930 ISBN 13: 9780345282934

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1979

Synopsis

In the arena of a vast New York sports palace, a man lay dead, murdered during the opening scene of a spectacular rodeo.Can you, as Ellery Queen does, follow these clues to the murderer?— A dead man's belt. What was the meaning of the deep ridges in the leather?— An ivory handled revolver. How could the “feel” of the gun-butt provide a clue?— The broken locks on a green box. Did the way the locks had been bent point the way to murder?These are the big points in one of the toughest mysteries ever tackled by Ellery Queen. It was a murder witnessed by 20,000 people, but only Ellery solved it.Do you think you can, too?

About this title

About the Author

Ellery Queen is a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn--Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905-1982), and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905-1971)--to write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both the authors' name and that of the detective-hero. The cousins also cofounded and directed Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential English crime-fiction magazines of the twentieth century. They were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.

Dan Butler, an actor, writer, director, and producer, has had major roles on and off Broadway and has appeared in numerous television shows, including Frasier, House, and Monk. He cowrote and directed Karl Rove, I Love You, and has appeared in such feature films as Crazy, Stupid, Love; Silence of the Lambs; Enemy of the State; and Fixing Frank, among others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345282930
• ISBN 13: 9780345282934
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 276