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The Chinese Orange Mystery (American Mystery Classics) by Ellery Queen
The Chinese Orange Mystery (American Mystery Classics) by Ellery Queen
The offices of foreign literature publisher and renowned stamp collector Donald Kirk are often host to strange activities, but the most recent occurrence -- the murder of an unknown caller, found dead in an empty waiting room -- is unlike any that has come before. Nobody, it seems, entered or exited the room, yet the crime scene has been manipulated, leaving everything turned backward and upside down. Two long spears are stuck through the back of the corpse's shirt, and a tangerine is missing from the fruit bowl.
Enter amateur sleuth Ellery Queen, who arrives just in time to witness the discovery of the body and immediately launches an investigation. In this complex case, no clue is too minor or too glaring to warrant careful consideration.
Ellery Queen was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederick Dannay (1905 - 1982) and Manfred B Lee (1905 - 1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. The duo spent forty-two years writing the greatest puzzle mysteries of their time, gaining them a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery.
PENZLER PUBLICATIONS, SOFTCOVER, 1934, 2018
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