The Devil to Pay

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.

A Useful Woman: A Rosalind Thorne Mystery, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Darcie Wilde
• Narrated By Sarah Nichols

The daughter of a baronet and minor heiress, Rosalind Thorne was nearly ruined after her father abandoned the family. To survive in the only world she knew, she began to manage the affairs of some of London society's most influential women, who rely on her wit and discretion. So when artistocratic wastrel Jasper Aimesworth is found dead in London's most exclusive ballroom, Almack's, Rosalind must use her skills and connections to uncover the killer.

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.

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 Painted Queen: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 1 min)
• By Elizabeth Peters, Joan Hess
• Narrated By Barbara Rosenblat

Arriving in Cairo for another thrilling excavation season, Amelia is relaxing in a well-earned bubble bath in her elegant hotel suite in Cairo when a man with a knife protruding from his back staggers into the bath chamber and utters a single word - "murder" - before collapsing on the tiled floor, dead. Among the few possessions he carried was a sheet of paper with Amelia's name and room number.

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 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 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.

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.

A Beautiful Blue Death: Charles Lenox Mysteries Series #1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Charles Finch
• Narrated By James Langton
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Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison.

The Tragedy of Y: The Second Drury Lane Mystery

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Mark Peckham

Some bizarre thingshave been happening to the eccentric Hatter family. First, the body of York Hatter is recovered from the ocean. But he didn't drown. He died of poison. Next, another poisoning occurs in the Hatters' old mansion in New York's Greenwich Village. This time the police have a witness. But what a witness! She is a blind, deaf mute. Naturally the authorities call in Drury Lane - retired Shakespearean actor, matinee idol, master of disguise, and amateur sleuth.

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.

Some Danger Involved: Barker & Llewelyn Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Will Thomas
• Narrated By Antony Ferguson
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An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar in London's Jewish ghetto. When the eccentric and enigmatic Barker takes the case, he must hire an assistant, and out of all who answer an ad for a position with "some danger involved", he chooses downtrodden Llewelyn, a gutsy young man with a murky past.

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!

Queens Full: Three Novelettes and a Pair of Short Shorts

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Traber Burns
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This rare volume is a collection of some of Queen's best, containing three novelettes and two short stories. The stories include "The Death of Don Juan", "The Wrightsville Heirs", "The Case Against Carroll", "E = Murder", and "Diamonds in Paradise". Ellery Queen stars in all of them, making this collection a must-listen for mystery fans.

The Case of the Velvet Claws: Perry Mason Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 1 min)
• By Erle Stanley Gardner
• Narrated By Alexander Cendese
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Married Eva Griffin has been caught with a prominent congressman, and is ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid hush money to protect the politician. But first Perry Mason tracks down the publisher of the blackmailing tabloid and discovers a shocking secret, which eventually leads to Mason being accused of murder. This is the first Perry Mason mystery and our introduction to secretary Della Street, detective Paul Drake, and the great lawyer himself.

The Tragedy of X: The Drury Lane Mysteries, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Ellery Queen
• Narrated By Mark Peckham

In New York City in the early 1930s, a man is poisoned on a crowded streetcar during rush hour. Everyone sees Longstreet die - but no one sees the killer. Inspector Thumm's few clues all lead up a blind alley. He finally seeks the aid of Drury Lane - retired Shakespearean actor, master of disguise, and amateur sleuth. Seated amid the splendor of the vast medieval halls of his castle on the Hudson, Drury Lane hears the story from the inspector.

Manna from Hades: The Cornish Mysteries, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Carola Dunn
• Narrated By Wanda McCaddon
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Eleanor Trewynn is a widow of some years living in Port Mabyn, a small fishing village in Cornwall, England. In her younger days, she traveled the exotic parts of the world with her husband. These days, she's retired and founded the local charity shop. Her niece, Megan Pencarrow, transferred nearby and was recently promoted to the rank of Detective Sergeant.