- Ellery Queen
- >
- The Egyptian Cross Mystery (American Mystery Classics) by Ellery Queen
The Egyptian Cross Mystery (American Mystery Classics) by Ellery Queen
The Egyptian Cross Mystery (American Mystery Classics) by Ellery Queen
"Crucifixion on Christmas Day." That's what the newspapers report when a small-town schoolteacher is discovered dead, beheaded, and tied to a T-shaped cross on December 25th. It's a murder bizarre enough to pique Ellery Queen's interest -- and intriguing enough to lure him to the West Virginia village where it occurred to take a closer look. But when he gets there, he finds that there's not enough evidence available to solve the crime.
The yuletide gore is a distant memory when the subsequent such murder occurs, this time on Long Island. When Queen learns that the sun-worshipping nudist cult he encountered down south has recently relocated to the area, it becomes clear that the group and the killings must be intertwined. And as several more crucifixion murders follow, he's drawn deeper into a tangled and eerie case that will push his powers of deduction almost to their limits.
Reissued for the first time in decades, The Egyptian Cross Mystery is a "fair play" puzzle in which the readers have all the clues necessary to solve the mystery themselves. It is the fifth of Elery Queen's cases, which may be enjoyed in any order.
Ellery Queen was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905 - 1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905 - 1972), as well as the name of their most famous detective. The duo spent forty-two years writing the greatest puzzle mysteries of their time.
AMERICAN MYSTERY CLASSICS, SOFTCOVER, 2020
THIS IS A BRAND-NEW BOOK.