Queens Full, Ellery Queen
Queens Full, Ellery Queen
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Queens Full
Three Novelettes and a Pair of Short Shorts

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 5 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2015

Synopsis

Since his first novel, Ellery Queen has been in the top ranks of the world's detective-story writers. He has been equally successful with short stories and novelettes written for magazines. 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-read for mystery fans.

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 Adia on September 13, 2023

these were a lot of fun. i'd never heard of Ellery Queen before this; his personality (if he does in fact possess one) does not show through much in this collection, but he's attractive in a vague way. i'll be reading more, if i can get ahold of them.........more

Goodreads review by Susan on October 26, 2012

This volume includes three longish short stories, and two short stories. They show off Queen the author and Queen the detective, especially his penchant for "dying messages." At least one story has greater emotional depth than the average.......more

Goodreads review by Alonzo on July 02, 2019

These are short stories written in the autumn years of the golden age detective. Ellery has no back story, no loves, no pain to bring forward from some really hard case. He just has a few puzzling mysteries to solve. He finds one of the cases upsetting, as later EQ can have a strain of melancholy. B......more

Goodreads review by Randy on January 19, 2012

I first became aware of Ellery Queen at a young age when reading Michael Avallone's U.N.C.L.E. novel, The Thousand Coffins Affair, when a dying agent frantically reverses his clothes to leave a vital clue. The clue was a reference to the Queen novel, THE CHINESE ORANGE AFFAIR. I became interested and......more

Goodreads review by Rick on May 29, 2022

This title includes three novellas (they call them 'novelets') and two short stories (they call then 'short shorts'). The Death of Don Juan(novella): Scutney Bluefield buys the vacant Bijou theatre in Wrightsville, and sets out to revitalize it. He produces The Death of Don Juanand brings in wa......more

Quotes

“Queens Full should have an avid audience, and deservedly so…The best Queen tradition.” New York Times

“This anthology is made up of three novellas and two short stories featuring the prince of American detective fiction, Ellery Queen…He’s one of the great who never palls.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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