Why So Dead?, Ellery Queen
Why So Dead?, Ellery Queen
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Why So Dead?

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 4 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2015

Synopsis

Tim Corrigan, the eye-patched detective with the knack for murderous situations, plunges into the wildest, farthest-out caper of his career. His assignment leads him to a splendid but terrified harem of veiled beauties, a millionaire sultan with a roving eye, and a gang of turbaned mystery men with a lust for violence. Corrigan’s job: protect a priceless ruby as red as the color of murder.

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 Peggy

Another good novel by Queen. Love these novels. Fun to try and figure out what everyone is really doing.......more

Goodreads review by Juan

As usual in Corrigan stories a fair intrigue and murder mystery.......more

Goodreads review by Kristin

Always good to read a classic mystery. I don't think I've read any Ellery Queen before. This was published in 1966, so a few references were dated (lack of cell phones and computers, a few phrases) - but overall it stood the test of time as a classic mystery.......more

Goodreads review by John

Good audio while walking.......more

Quotes

“Ellery Queen clearly is, after Poe, the most important American in mystery fiction.” Otto Penzler, editor of Best American Mystery Stories, praise for the author

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