Calendar of Crime
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In the merry month of May, Ellery Queen made a trek to Gettysburg to witness an annual celebrationâand an annual murder. February found the ingenious Ellery locked in a furious battle of wits with a dead US president. These are but two of the twelve appointments with crime that make up Queen's baffling calendar of conundrums. Each elegant enigma ticks off all the surprise and excitement that have made Queen the dean of American detective fiction.
Stories include "The Inner Circle," "The President's Half Dime," "The Ides of Michael Magoon," "The Emperor's Dice," "The Gettysburg Bugle," "The Medical Finger," "The Fallen Angel," "The Needle's Eye," "The Three R's," "The Dead Cat," "The Telltale Bottle," and "The Dauphin's Doll."
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Ellery Queen is a pseudonym used by two American cousins from BrooklynâDaniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905â1982), and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905â1971)âto write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both the authorsâ name and that of the detective-hero. The cousins also cofounded and directed Ellery Queenâs 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.
Read by Traber Burns, Keith Szarabajka, Adenrele Ojo, Kevin Kenerly, Hillary Huber, Carrington MacDuffie, Mirron Willis, Kirby Heyborne, Priya Ayyar, Neil Shah, Thom Rivera, and Scott Brick
