
The Glass Village
Author: Ellery Queen
Narrator: Robert Fass
Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/01/2014
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators

Author: Ellery Queen
Narrator: Robert Fass
Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/01/2014
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators
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.
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.
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
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