Cat of Many Tails, Ellery Queen
Cat of Many Tails, Ellery Queen
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Cat of Many Tails

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Robert Fass

Unabridged: 11 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2014

Synopsis

The silent rush of footsteps, the muffled shriek, the ever-tightening noose of exotic silk … the mark of the Cat. The Cat had claimed number nine.The Cat had nine kills, but Ellery Queen found number ten alive and offered the victim temptingly to the killer. The trap was baited, and Ellery and the police poised for the strike that had to come. But the strangler struck elsewhere—and Queen's heart chilled at the thought of what he would find.

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 Robert Fass

Robert Fass is a veteran actor and twice winner of the prestigious Audie Award for the year’s best narration. He has earned many Earphones Awards and AudioFile magazine “Best of the Year” accolades.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Courtney on October 02, 2015

I've read enough EQ to guess the twist at the end, but the plot was sound and satisfactory. His writing is more overwrought than usual, though, and if it was my first Queen I would have put it down in disgust after the first chapter.......more

Goodreads review by Kayt on February 12, 2019

Ah, Ellery Queen. I can never quite decide how to feel because, he's enjoyable, yes, but I'm also not terribly surprised he's rather unknown these days. On the plus side--the writing is often snappy and witty without being over-the-top. There's humor woven throughout. It simply feels like it was writ......more

Goodreads review by Johnny on February 21, 2013

This was (after a fashion) my first exposure to Ellery Queen, although it was not the first of his books that I read. In 1971, Cat Of Many Tails was used as the basis for the TV-Movie Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You, which starred Peter Lawford as Ellery, and Harry Morgan as Inspector Richard Qu......more

Goodreads review by Lady Wesley on April 24, 2022

Ellery on the trail of a serial killer in 1950s New York. It’s an interesting puzzle, but awfully overwrought.......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on June 16, 2017

Not bad. Interesting as an early serial killer story--not much mystery until the end. Also interesting for the heavy-handed psychological analysis of the killer. (view spoiler)[It is painfully obvious that these two guys have absolutely NO idea how a woman's mind works. (hide spoiler)]......more

Quotes

“Presents the puzzle-minded reader with a very pretty problem indeed…The actual protagonist of the novel, the City of New York, comes magnificently to life.” New York Times

“The old master, nonplussed, even a little unnerved, by the nine unrelated deaths by strangulation which bear no clues, no common denominator, and no interidentity…A new territory—psychoanalytical—and a more than superior manhunt.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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