The Glass Village, Ellery Queen
The Glass Village, Ellery Queen
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The Glass Village

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Robert Fass

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2014


Synopsis

When mere accusation takes the place of evidence, freedom is in peril. What happens after the murder is the story of what Johnny Shinn—late of Army Intelligence and veteran of two wars—in spite of himself, does about it. The tense lynch trial that is the focus of the action is really the trial of Johnny Shinn as an American.

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 Daniel on December 01, 2018

While the book is very much a product of its time- i.e., 1954 small-town America, the red scare, etc.- it's also highly entertaining. An Ellery Queen book, neither Ellery or his father (Inspector Queen) are present. Instead we get to watch Judge Shinn and a war vet named Johnny try to unravel the tr......more

Goodreads review by Cudeyo on November 05, 2016

Una anciana asesinada en un pueblecito perdido en la Nueva Inglaterra puritana, en un Estados Unidos recién salido de la guerra de Corea. Un vagabundo, y además extranjero. Una población inculta, fanática, convencida de que ellos son los más indicados para decidir quién es el culpable, al que ya han......more

Goodreads review by Huub on January 16, 2018

Vond op zolder nog een hele zak met wat oudere ongelezen boeken. Een daarvan was dit boekje. In eerste instantie dacht ik dus een oude thriller. Maar eigenlijk is dit een aanklacht tegen de vooroordelen van de maatschappij met een spannend sausje. Na een moeilijk begin, gevoelsmatig duurde alles wel......more

Goodreads review by Rick on March 31, 2023

Major characters: Judge Lewis Shinn Johnny Shinn,  the Judge's distant cousin Laban Hemus, a local farm hand, killed in a fight Joe Gonzoli Joe Gonzoli, itinerant farm worker who killed Laban "Aunt" Fanny Adams, elderly artist Ferriss Adams, her grand-nephew Josef Kowalczyk, itinerant  Judge Andrew Webster R......more

Goodreads review by Alonzo on July 20, 2019

The setting — a dying New England town, insular, suspicious of outsiders. Norman Rockwell, but in need of a fresh coat of paint and less inbreeding. The plot — a brutal murder of a beloved grandmother and Grandma Moses style painter. A lynch mob mentality descends on the town, because a foreign born......more