The Greek Coffin Mystery, Ellery Queen
The Greek Coffin Mystery, Ellery Queen
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The Greek Coffin Mystery

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Mark Peckham

Unabridged: 13 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2013

Synopsis

In one of his earliest cases, Ellery Queen confronts a murder in blue blood. From the very beginning, the Khalkis case struck a somber note. It began, as was peculiarly harmonious in the light of what was to come, with the death of an old man. Georg Khalkis, internationally famous art dealer and collector, died of heart failure. After his funeral, his attorney found that the will was missing and immediately called in the district attorney. When Inspector Queen and his son, Ellery, are brought in to solve the mystery, Ellery mentions the one place they have not searched for the will: the coffin. Upon exhumation of the Khalkis coffin, they find that it contains not one body—but two!

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 Mark Peckham

Mark Peckham is an actor and director based in Rhode Island. In addition to working with Trinity Rep, Virginia Stage Co., and many Boston-area theaters, he was the voice of Joseph Smith in the award-winning PBS documentary American Prophet with Gregory Peck.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luffy Sempai

The two authors who have taken the pen name of Ellery Queen are many things, but great writers they are not. By great I mean - maybe - humanizing. To see someone solve a rubik cube in record time inspires nothing but awe; I don't mean that in a good way by the way. They do not know how to make the......more

Goodreads review by Anastasia

The Greek Coffin Mystery by Ellery Queen is the 4th book in the Ellery Queen Detective series. When it is discovered that art dealer and collector Georg Khalkis' will is missing after his funeral, Inspector Queen is called in. After a thorough search, his son Ellery deduces that it must be in the co......more

Goodreads review by Eustacia

My first Ellery Queen mystery! For reasons now forgotten to me, I have Ellery Queen's The Scarlet Letters on my TBR list. Unfortunately, the library only has The Greek Coffin Mystery, so that's what I got. The Greek Coffin Mystery starts with a will gone missing, a body in a coffin where it should no......more

Goodreads review by Gilbert

One of the joys of reading Ellery Queen novels is that moment toward the end of the book when the narrator steps out of character and challenges the reader to solve the mystery. I’ve read four of them now and I haven’t come close to getting the solution right. This time I caught one of the red herri......more

Goodreads review by Joe

Although this is the fourth entry in the Ellery Queen series, it’s actually a prequel. How does the reader know this? Well the author(s) says so repeatedly. That being said this is an entertaining read. An art dealer is found dead at his desk - his recently rewritten will missing. The subsequent plo......more

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