Sound of Detection: Ellery Queen's Adventures in Radio

Hint of edge wear, gently scuffed, light stain in the base of the bottom of the rear cover, overall a very crisp and clean first edition, gift quality! Very very rare and hard-to-find! 109 very clean, unmarked and uncreased, informative and historical pages! Wonderfully well-preserved! Extremely scarce and out-of-print! "I discovered Ellery Quen in my early teens, those formative years when the heroes a person adopts can last a lifetime. I can still see myself sitting in a creaky old rocking chair in front of my grandmother's house during the heat of the 1957 summer, lost in ecstasy as I wandered with Ellery through the labyrinths of The Greek coffin Mystery. Through my high school and college years I found and devoured in haphazard order all the other Queen classics: The Egyptian Cross Mystery, The Tragedy of X, The Tragedy of Y, Calamity Town, Cat of Many Tails. It was many years after my intorduction to the Queen novels that I learned about the Queen radio programs, which had come on the air several years before I was born and had gone off when I was five. Eventually I became interested in that aspect of the Queen saga too, and a chapter on the program ---- a chapter I now realize was all too sketchy and inadequate ---- was included in my 1974 book, Royal Bloodline: Ellery Queen, Author and Detective. But the full story of that program has remained untold until now."-----from the Preface by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.…