A Room to Die In
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The Chinese Orange Mystery
- The Ellery Queen Mysteries 1934
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
A puzzling publishing murder attracts the eye of Ellery Queen. 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. No one recognizes him, but Kirk’s staff is used to strange characters visiting their boss, so Kirk’s secretary asks him to wait in the anteroom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Classic detective series, awful narrator
- By Richard Bruno on 01-23-14
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Face to Face
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Gloria Guild is the singing "glory" of the thirties and the millionairess wife of Count Carlos Armando, renowned only for his succession of wealthy wives. When she is murdered, her husband is the obvious suspect, but he has a perfect alibi. So who could he have got to do it for him? The only clue is the word "face," penned in her dying scrawl. But whose face? And why? Ellery Queen pursues the glory riddle from the Bowery to a way-out wedding - and a surprise climax that will jolt you into cold shock. Anyone whonails this killer before Queen is either a genius or a cheat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Good Detective Mystery
- By Henry Maicki II on 03-31-16
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The Siamese Twin Mystery
- The Ellery Queen Mysteries, Book 7
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Trapped on a burning mountain, the Queens take refuge with a killer. Dashing detective Ellery Queen and his father are driving over the pothole-scarred Arrow Mountain Road when they come face to face with a wall of flame. They tear back in the other direction, fire at their fenders, and finally find safety in a clearing, at the home of Dr. Xavier, a renowned surgeon. He is a genial man, but his distracted, mysterious smile conceals dark secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Ellery Queen
- By Henry Maicki II on 06-08-15
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The Egyptian Cross Mystery
- An Ellery Queen Mystery, Book 5
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a small town's Christmas. It's Christmas in Chicago, and Detective Richard Queen is enjoying a busman's holiday at a conference on gangland violence - but 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 he'd like better for Christmas than a juicy, gruesome puzzle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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how come this says optional, if required?
- By ka&freddy on 01-21-17
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The Greek Coffin Mystery
- The Ellery Queen Mysteries
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
In one of his earliest cases, Ellery Queen confronts a murder in blue blood. From the very beginning, the Khalkis case struck a somber note. It began, as was peculiarly harmonious in the light of what was to come, with the death of an old man. Georg Khalkis, internationally famous art dealer and collector, died of heart failure. After his funeral, his attorney found that the will was missing and immediately called in the district attorney. When Inspector Queen and his son, Ellery, are brought in to solve the mystery, Ellery mentions the one place they have not searched for the will: the coffin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A puzzler from Queen
- By Stephen W Osborne on 07-22-17
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The French Powder Mystery
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4 out of 5 stars 107
French's department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele. But no one there could be proud of its latest exclusive window display: the bloodstained corpse of the owner's wife. Ellery Queen and his father, Inspector Richard Queen, soon discover that this palace of commerce is a viper's nest of fear, jealousy, suspicion, and hatred, where love is cheap and the price of honor marked down. But worst of all is the mysterious mocking mastermind who is out to turn the glittering store into a bargain basement of murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mystery from the era of the classics
- By Kathi on 03-29-14
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The Chinese Orange Mystery
- The Ellery Queen Mysteries 1934
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
A puzzling publishing murder attracts the eye of Ellery Queen. 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. No one recognizes him, but Kirk’s staff is used to strange characters visiting their boss, so Kirk’s secretary asks him to wait in the anteroom.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Classic detective series, awful narrator
- By Richard Bruno on 01-23-14
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Face to Face
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Gloria Guild is the singing "glory" of the thirties and the millionairess wife of Count Carlos Armando, renowned only for his succession of wealthy wives. When she is murdered, her husband is the obvious suspect, but he has a perfect alibi. So who could he have got to do it for him? The only clue is the word "face," penned in her dying scrawl. But whose face? And why? Ellery Queen pursues the glory riddle from the Bowery to a way-out wedding - and a surprise climax that will jolt you into cold shock. Anyone whonails this killer before Queen is either a genius or a cheat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Good Detective Mystery
- By Henry Maicki II on 03-31-16
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The Siamese Twin Mystery
- The Ellery Queen Mysteries, Book 7
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Trapped on a burning mountain, the Queens take refuge with a killer. Dashing detective Ellery Queen and his father are driving over the pothole-scarred Arrow Mountain Road when they come face to face with a wall of flame. They tear back in the other direction, fire at their fenders, and finally find safety in a clearing, at the home of Dr. Xavier, a renowned surgeon. He is a genial man, but his distracted, mysterious smile conceals dark secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Ellery Queen
- By Henry Maicki II on 06-08-15
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The Egyptian Cross Mystery
- An Ellery Queen Mystery, Book 5
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a small town's Christmas. It's Christmas in Chicago, and Detective Richard Queen is enjoying a busman's holiday at a conference on gangland violence - but 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 he'd like better for Christmas than a juicy, gruesome puzzle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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how come this says optional, if required?
- By ka&freddy on 01-21-17
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The Greek Coffin Mystery
- The Ellery Queen Mysteries
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
In one of his earliest cases, Ellery Queen confronts a murder in blue blood. From the very beginning, the Khalkis case struck a somber note. It began, as was peculiarly harmonious in the light of what was to come, with the death of an old man. Georg Khalkis, internationally famous art dealer and collector, died of heart failure. After his funeral, his attorney found that the will was missing and immediately called in the district attorney. When Inspector Queen and his son, Ellery, are brought in to solve the mystery, Ellery mentions the one place they have not searched for the will: the coffin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A puzzler from Queen
- By Stephen W Osborne on 07-22-17
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The French Powder Mystery
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4 out of 5 stars 107
French's department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele. But no one there could be proud of its latest exclusive window display: the bloodstained corpse of the owner's wife. Ellery Queen and his father, Inspector Richard Queen, soon discover that this palace of commerce is a viper's nest of fear, jealousy, suspicion, and hatred, where love is cheap and the price of honor marked down. But worst of all is the mysterious mocking mastermind who is out to turn the glittering store into a bargain basement of murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mystery from the era of the classics
- By Kathi on 03-29-14
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The Door Between
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16
When Ellery Queen first meets the award-winning novelist Karen Leith, it is at a party held to celebrate her most recent prize in literature. The next time he hears of her, she is dead - murdered, so the police suspect, by the daughter of her fiancé, the eminent cancer researcher Dr. John MacClure. With no other suspects and only circumstantial evidence at hand, master detective Ellery Queen delves into the reclusive writer's past to uncover the startling method and motive of an intricate crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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another great Ellery Queen book
- By mike on 03-11-19
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The Dragon's Teeth
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Eccentric multimillionaire Cadmus Cole hires Ellery Queen to investigate a case but won't say what it is. When Cole dies mysteriously at sea, Queen and his partner, Beau Rummell, must navigate a thicket of complications that includes a fifty-million-dollar legacy, two beautiful but avaricious women vying for the inheritance, a will with some odd provisions, and even a phony Ellery Queen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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entertaining story
- By Ray on 06-28-16
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The Last Woman in His Life
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
John Lovering Benedict had more than most men - more money, more mansions, more cars, but most of all more women, including three ex-wives with little in common but their extraordinary physiques. For Ellery Queen the question was which one of them had bashed in Benedict's skull with a hunk of iron statuary? The clues were many…but puzzling. All had been planted at the scene of the crime, but by whom, and for what purpose? And who was the last woman in John Benedict's life?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Queen's finest hour
- By Stephen W Osborne on 06-30-17
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There Was an Old Woman
- The Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1943
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Once upon an evil time, there was a wicked old woman with a mammoth shoe company worth many millions of dollars, a henpecked husband, and six miserable children. Then one day death came visiting the vast Potts mansion - and began claiming its inhabitants one by one. It was then that Ellery Queen was invited to sup on this nightmare brew of diabolical murder and baffling mystery - in a case that made the most horrific crimes in his entire career seem like fairy tales. As he endeavors to solve the case, he tries to make sense of this family that defies rationality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An adventure of Ellery in Queenland
- By Stephen W Osborne on 01-26-17
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The Four of Hearts
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
It was a script that could only have come from Hollywood: the wedding of two superstars after a scandal-filled courtship... a wild trip by private plane to a hideaway... a deadly double overdose of drugs... These corpses weren't play-acting. Once again, Ellery was cast in the role of master detective, as he found nothing was quite what it seemed in the never-never land of moviedom - except sudden, violent death...
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book
- By mike on 03-28-19
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Calamity Town
- Ellery Queen, Book 16
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
At 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not your usual Ellery Queen
- By Suzo on 02-01-18
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The Devil to Pay
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story5 out of 5 stars 16
When Hollywood bigwig Solly Spaeth is murdered, thousands cheer. He is a most popular corpse, for Solly's stock manipulations have ruined many, including his partner. A cut-and-dried case - or so it appears. Enter master detective Ellery Queen, whose embarrassing questions uncover a maze of conflicting alibis and motives, and ultimately reveal a deadly face lurking beneath the glittering mask of Tinseltown.
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5 out of 5 stars
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again.... no consideration when it comes to the na
- By mike on 03-18-19
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The Player on the Other Side
- Ellery Queen, Book 28
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
A card with the letter "J" on it appeared in Robert York's mail, and a day later he was dead. Then another card showed up, and Ellery Queen knew he was up against a brilliant killer who made a game of death by warning his victims. The only clue was the signature "Y" and Ellery had to find him and stop his remorseless vendetta before "Y" won his mad game.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed!
- By CjMac2 on 01-07-17
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The Murderer Is a Fox
- The Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1945
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Could murder really be hereditary? Davy Fox certainly thinks so. When he was only a boy, his father, Bayard Fox,was convicted of murdering Davy's mother in the small town of Wrightsville. Now that Davy has grown up and returned home from the war, he fears that it is onlya matter of time until he kills his own wife. But could he really do such athing? Desperate to find out the truth, Davy's wife, Linda, calls on Ellery Queen to investigate the twelve-year-old murder of Jessica Fox.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Wrightville visit
- By Stephen W Osborne on 11-14-16
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The Roman Hat Mystery
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 549
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 490
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 490
Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it's packed to the gills with action, explosions, and gunfire. In fact, Gunplay is so loud that no one notices the killing of Monte Field. In a sold-out theater, Field is found dead partway through the second act, surrounded by empty seats. The police hold the crowd and call for the one man who can untangle this daring murder: Inspector Richard Queen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful "logic puzzle"--great listen, great fun!
- By Kathi on 02-24-14
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The King Is Dead
- By: Ellery Queen
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4 out of 5 stars 28
Someone is threatening to kill the King, and Ellery must take on the task of saving his hated life. Virtual prisoners, Ellery and his father are whisked away to an island "somewhere in the Atlantic." In a frightening atmosphere of industrial slavery and brute militarism, Ellery comes to grips with a baffling murderer who calmly announces the exact moment of the assassination. The trouble is, Ellery is with the confessed murderer at the time of the crime - so how could he have possibly done it?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing and tedious
- By Cass on 05-08-18
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A Murderous Ride
- Bunburry - A Cosy Mystery Series 2
- By: Helena Marchmont
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Parker
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 921
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 817
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 808
In "A Murderous Ride," the second Bunburry book, Alfie discovers that he has not only inherited a cottage from his late Aunt Augusta but also a 1950s Jaguar. He is dismayed: for reasons of his own, he no longer drives. Aunt Augusta's best friends, Liz and Marge, persuade him to get behind the wheel again - but that's just the start of his troubles. Alfie discovers it's a seriously bad idea to get on the wrong side of the local police sergeant. Especially when he finds himself at a murder scene and the sergeant decides Alfie's the murderer. There's only one thing to be done.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as the first book by far, but not bad
- By FitMama on 03-15-19
Publisher's Summary
How could a man have been murdered when he was found alone in his study, a gun in his hand, and the door locked from the inside? It had to be suicide, the police figured. Although there was no suicide note, there was a letter proving conclusively that Roland Nelson, over the last several months, was being blackmailed. But to his daughter, Ann, whom he had seen only spasmodically since he had left her mother when Ann was a baby, there were unanswered questions. She was convinced that her father could never have killed himself. Before she found the answers, two people were brutally garroted with a wire, one of them in her own apartment.
Could she find all the answers before the killer silenced her, too?
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- Music Lover
- 11-26-18
a lovely classic whodunit
perfect if you are looking for a nostalgic fix without taxing your brain too much
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