The American Gun Mystery, Ellery Queen
The American Gun Mystery, Ellery Queen
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The American Gun Mystery

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Dan Butler

Unabridged: 10 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2013

Synopsis

When a Western star is gunned down at a rodeo, Ellery Queen saddles up to solve the mystery.Buck Horne has roped thousands of cattle, slugged his way out of dozens of saloons, and shot plenty of men dead in the street—but always on the backlot. He's a celluloid cowboy, and his career is nearly kaput. The real box office draw is his daughter, Kit, a brawling beauty who can outshoot any rascal the studio has to offer. Desperate for a comeback, Buck joins Wild Bill Grant's traveling rodeo for a show in New York, hoping to land one last movie contract. But he has scarcely mounted his horse when he falls to the dirt. It wasn't age that made him slip—it was the bullet in his heart. Watching from the stands are Ellery Queen, debonair sleuth, and his police detective father. They are New Yorkers through and through, but to solve the rodeo killing, the Queens must learn to talk cowboy.

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 Dan Butler

Dan Butler, audiobook narrator, actor, writer, director, and producer, has had major roles on and off Broadway and has appeared in numerous television shows, including Frasier, House, and Monk. He cowrote and directed Karl Rove, I Love You and has appeared in such feature films as Crazy, Stupid, Love; Silence of the Lambs; Enemy of the State; and Fixing Frank, among others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jan C on April 25, 2019

I enjoyed this for the most part. A Wild West show comes to town. An ex-movie cowboy star is the big feature in it. At least, until he gets killed. By a .25. There are plenty of .45s - mostly filled with blanks. They search everyone in the place, including the thousands in the audience. No .25 shows......more

Goodreads review by Bev on November 12, 2021

It's rodeo time in the Big Apple. Wild Bill Grant has brought his cowboys and horses, sharpshooters and bronco busters to town and they're all set to give New York a taste of the wild and woolly west. As an added bonus, real life cowboy and former Western movie star, Buck Horne is on tap to appear.......more

Goodreads review by Jenna on October 05, 2020

CHALLENGE-BONUS #7-NEVER ENDING STORY (***Teri said it was ok that this was an audibobook for challenge category***) I've previously listened to other Ellery Queen mysteries on audio. (and b/c i've never seen them in book format on the shelves) They were pretty good. I didn't want to start a new series......more

Goodreads review by Eustacia on May 08, 2018

My second Ellery Queen Mystery! I’m afraid I didn’t like this as much as The Greek Coffin Mystery. The American Mystery takes place at a Rodeo. Ellery Queen and his father take Djuna to see the first show starting Buck Horne. And at that show, with twenty thousand people watching, Buck Horne is shot......more

Goodreads review by William on December 01, 2020

This is one of those cases where the I really need a 10 point scale. This, along my criteria, is a clear 3.5/7 out of 10. American Gun Mystery is early Ellery Queen. Early phase one Queen generally beats the pants off of later Queen, though unfortunately, far more of the latter exists. I'd heard that......more

Quotes

“The best of the Ellery Queen books.” New York Times

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