A Room to Die In, Ellery Queen
A Room to Die In, Ellery Queen
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A Room to Die In

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 4 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2015

Synopsis

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?

About Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen is a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn—Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905–1982), and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971)—to write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both the authors’ name and that of the detective-hero. The cousins also cofounded and directed Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential English crime-fiction magazines of the twentieth century. They were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.

About Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jimmy Lee on April 21, 2019

Ellery Queen fans know that the author's name is a pseudonym created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee. Late in their career, the cousins allowed some crime novels, not using Queen as the protagonist, to be written by ghostwriters. According to Wikipedia, "A Room to Die In" is such a boo......more

Goodreads review by George K. on October 02, 2023

"Φόνος στο κλειστό δωμάτιο", εκδόσεις ΒΙΠΕΡ. Βαθμολογία: 7/10 Συγγραφέας του συγκεκριμένου βιβλίου, το οποίο έγραψε με το συλλογικό ψευδώνυμο Έλερι Κουίν, είναι ο εξαιρετικός συγγραφέας βιβλίων φαντασίας και επιστημονικής φαντασίας, Τζακ Βανς. Τον Μάιο του 2020 είχα διαβάσει το πολύ καλό "Ο τρελός δολ......more

Goodreads review by Gabriele on June 22, 2019

Ho letto questo romanzo in un giorno solo, in quanto abbastanza breve. Devo dire che mi ha assieme stupito e deluso: stupito per quanto riguarda la soluzione della camera chiusa, che ho trovato deliziosa, a cui si poteva arrivare con gli indizi trovati da Ann; deluso, invece per la narrazione abbast......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on May 18, 2018

Listened to this on audiobook. Was totally drawn in, wasn't sure I liked many of the characters, but still found myself caring about the plot and the outcome of the story. The locked room death is solved in an ingenious way, which I did not see coming ... even given the clues.......more

Goodreads review by Neil on July 11, 2019

Dated. Insulting. Patronizing. But that is 1965 for you. I didn't like the characters, and but the story was interesting enough for me to finish it. Not really my genre, so I suspect I just don't get it.......more

Quotes

“One of the better locked-room mysteries…There are red herrings in this book that lead you down the garden path. Trust me, if you can figure it all out before the bombshell drops, you are the reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes.” Bookgasm

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