Queens Full: Three Novelettes and a Pair of Short Shorts

The Roman Hat Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Robert Fass

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.

Calendar of Crime

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Traber Burns

In the merry month of May, Ellery Queen made a trek to Gettysburg to witness an annual celebration - and an annual murder. February found the ingenious Ellery locked in a furious battle of wits with a dead US president. These are but two of the 12 appointments with crime that make up Queen's baffling calendar of conundrums. Each elegant enigma ticks off all the surprise and excitement that have made Queen the dean of American detective fiction.

QBI: Queen's Bureau of Investigation

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Traber Burns

Queen's Bureau of Investigation is now open for business - and in each department of this new enterprise Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise the brilliant, ingenious, and at times startling talents of his crime-lab mind. For to the bureau come some of the most plaguey cases in Queen's career.

The Tragedy of Errors, and Others

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Traber Burns

The Tragedy of Errors is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final but never published Ellery Queen novel, containing all the hallmarks of the greatest Queen mysteries - the dying message, the succession of false solutions before the astonishing truth is revealed, and scrupulous fair play to the listener. And the theme is one that Queen had been developing for many years: the manipulation of events in a world going mad by people who aspire to the power of gods.

And on the Eighth Day

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Mark Peckham
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It's 1943, the war is raging, and sleuthing scribe Ellery Queen wants to do his bit. After a tortuous cross-country drive, he takes a job writing scripts for a Hollywood propaganda house - twelve hours a day of hack work that quickly turns his mind to jelly. After a few weeks, he is so worn down that he can type nothing but gibberish, and he decides to drive home. The trouble starts as soon as he reaches the desert.

The House of Brass

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Mark Peckham
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You are invited to a murder. That was how the invitations should have read when aged millionaire Hendrik Brass sent out his messages to six oddly assorted men and women who knew neither him nor each other. All arrived at the isolated Brass mansion, lured by the tantalizing promise of fabulous wealth. But from the moment the shining brass doors of the grotesquely constructed house swung shut behind them, they began to realize they had been enticed into playing parts in a monstrous joke - the joke of a twisted, brilliant mind…

The Last Woman in His Life

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Mark Peckham
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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?

The Fourth Side of the Triangle: The Ellery Queen Mysteries

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Mark Peckham
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Frightfully rich and awesomely respectable, the McKells had never been touched by scandal. At least, not until the handsome Dane McKell discovered his father's secret affair. Determined to protect his mother, he forced a meeting with the other woman.

But Dane didn't count on falling in love with her himself. Nor did he count on the front page murder that engulfed them all. Sheila, exotic young international leader of haute couture, is found murdered in her Park Avenue penthouse.

Face to Face

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Robert Fass

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.

A Study in Scarlet Women: The Lady Sherlock Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs)
• By Sherry Thomas
• Narrated By Kate Reading
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With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper-class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name.

A Fine and Private Place

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Mark Peckham
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The nine-word clue was one of nine cryptic notes that had been sent to taunt Inspector Queen and his son Ellery nine days after the murder. Nino Importuna had been obsessed with the number. He had lived by it. Now the killer who brought a trio of gory deaths to Nino's ninth-floor penthouse at Number 99 East was camouflaging his identity in a jungle of nines - and daring Ellery to find him. The case was destined to be a dazzling contest of wits - to the ninth degree!

The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie
• Narrated By Julian Rhind-Tutt
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Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified - but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one’s mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman?

A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia: A Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventure, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Clara Benson
• Narrated By Gethyn Edwards
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It's 1929, and Ticky Maltravers is the toast of London high society, adored by everyone - or so it seems, until somebody poisons him over dinner. Now it turns out that numerous people with secrets to hide had every reason to wish him dead. But which of them murdered him? For Freddy Pilkington-Soames, newspaper reporter and man-about-town, the question hits a little too close to home.

The Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Craig Johnson
• Narrated By George Guidall

Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Dry Bones, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. Johnson draws on his deep attachment to the American West to produce a literary mystery of stunning authenticity, full of memorable characters.

The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Lyndsay Faye
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Internationally best-selling author Lyndsay Faye became enamored with tales of Sherlock Holmes and his esteemed biographer, Dr. John Watson, as a child and later began spinning these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction - from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust and Shadow, which pitted the famous detective against Jack the Ripper, to a series of short stories for the Strand Magazine, whose predecessor published the very first Sherlock Holmes short story in 1891.

The Floating Admiral

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Agatha Christie, Simon Brett - preface, Dorothy L. Sayers - introduction, and others
• Narrated By David Timson

Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt.

Cherringham - A Cosy Crime Series Compilation (Cherringham 1 - 3)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Matthew Costello, Neil Richards
• Narrated By Neil Dudgeon
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries. This compilation contains episodes 1 - 3: MURDER ON THAMES, MYSTERY AT THE MANOR and MURDER BY MOONLIGHT.

The Tales of Max Carrados

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Ernest Bramah
• Narrated By Stephen Fry

Exclusive audio collection. Eleven Max Carrados stories - narrated by national treasure Stephen Fry. Max Carrados featured in a series of mystery stories that first appeared in 1914. Carrados featured alongside Sherlock Holmes in The Strand magazine, in which they both had top billing. The character often boasted how being blind meant his other senses were heightened. This exclusive audio collection features 11 Max Carrados stories.