Wife or Death, Ellery Queen
Wife or Death, Ellery Queen
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Wife or Death

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2015

Synopsis

Angel was a voluptuous child-woman, bouncing in and out of every bed in town, until she landed in the wrong one and found death was her lover. Then the town that had played voyeur to her indiscretions pounced upon Angel’s husband, Jim, branding him cuckold and killer and screaming for blood. But what could Jim do when even the DA, last in a parade of Angel’s lovers, was out to pin the murder on him? He had to find the one who had played Angel false or let an avenging Angel cheat him again. Only this time he might pay with his life!

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 John

I came across this recently and pounced on it, thinking that at last I'd found an Ellery Queen that I hadn't read before. No such luck. It's one of a series of paperback originals that Dannay and Lee licensed to be written by ghosts for publication under the Queen name. This one was in fact written......more

Goodreads review by Brett

Newspaper publisher Jim Denton's big problem—his beautiful but bored wife is cheating on him—is about to be replaced with an even bigger problem: she's been murdered and he is being framed for the killing. This is a novel with a great deal of potential suspects, all of whom seem to have a motive. Gh......more

Goodreads review by terry stallings

Who Killed Angel? Angel Denton has been murdered! But who did it? Was it her husband Jim? Or the DA ? Or any one of the many lovers she had? Read it, and find out. You'll be glad you did!......more

Quotes

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

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