The Egyptian Cross Mystery

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049982843

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The Egyptian Cross Mystery by Ellery Queen Pdf

The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a small town’s Christmas It’s Christmas in Chicago, and Inspector Richard Queen is enjoying a busman’s holiday at a conference on gangland violence—but his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, is bored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia: A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified. Ellery hustles his father into his roadster and heads east, since there is nothing he’d like better for Christmas than a juicy, gruesome puzzle. When the Queens arrive in Arroyo, they learn that the victim was an eccentric atheist, but not the sort to make enemies. What initially looks to be the work of a sadistic cult turns out to be something far more sinister. In the months ahead, more victims will turn up all over the world—all killed in the same horrifying manner. It will take several bodies before Queen divines the clue that unlocks the mystery of the Christmas crucifixion.

Author : Queen, Ellery
Publisher : Pocket Books of Canada
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:38095379

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The Egyptian Cross Mystery by Queen, Ellery Pdf

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459641265

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The Egyptian Cross Mystery by Ellery Queen Pdf

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Queen, Ellery (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:639943611

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The Egyptian Cross Mystery; a Problem in Deduction by Ellery Queen Pdf

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613161784

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The Egyptian Cross Mystery by Ellery Queen Pdf

Ellery Queen investigates a series of bizarre murders that lead to a mysterious religious cult “Crucifixion on Christmas Day.” That’s what the newspapers report when a small-town schoolteacher is discovered dead, beheaded, and tied to a T-shaped cross on December 25th. It’s a murder bizarre enough to pique Ellery Queen’s interest — and intriguing enough to lure him to the West Virginia village where it occurred to take a closer look. But when he arrives, Queen is met with too few clues and too little evidence to produce a satisfactory verdict, even for a master sleuth such as himself, and so returns home to New York defeated. The yuletide gore is a distant memory when the next such murder occurs, identical in every way, but now the location has moved to Long Island. When Ellery Queen learns that the sun-worshipping nudist cult he encountered down south has made the same relocation, it becomes clear that the group and the killings must be intertwined. But then several more crucifixion murders follow, drawing Queen deeper into a tangled and eerie puzzle unlike anything he’s encountered before. It will take all of his powers of deduction to uncover the killer. Reissued for the first time in decades, The Egyptian Cross Mystery is a “fair play” puzzle in which the readers have all the clues necessary to solve the mystery themselves. It is the fifth of Ellery Queen’s cases, which may be enjoyed in any order.

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049982829

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The Siamese Twin Mystery by Ellery Queen Pdf

Trapped on a burning mountain, the Queens take refuge with a killer Dashing detective Ellery Queen and his father are driving over the pothole-scarred Arrow Mountain road when they come face to face with a wall of flame. They tear back in the other direction, fire at their fenders, and finally find safety in a clearing, at the home of Dr. Xavier, a renowned surgeon. He is a genial man, but his distracted, mysterious smile conceals dark secrets. Passing through one of the drafty hallways, Ellery’s father is startled by a pair of eyes burning in the darkness—the eyes of a monster. Could they be trapped on some kind of mountain of Dr. Moreau? Dr. Xavier introduces them to the rest of his household, including his wife, brother, and medical assistant. Everyone’s welcoming, but they also seem anxious and cagey. When the good doctor is found shot to death in his study, Queen realizes that he and his father have more to fear than a pair of sinister eyes. The Queens may have escaped the forest fire, but they have leapt into a situation that is every bit as hot.

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049982751

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The Dutch Shoe Mystery by Ellery Queen Pdf

Queen visits an operating theater to witness a surgery, but finds a murder instead The son of a police detective, Ellery Queen grew up in a bloody atmosphere. Since he started lending his deductive powers to the New York City homicide squad, he has seen more than his fair share of mangled corpses. Though he is accustomed to gore, the thought of seeing a living person sliced open makes him ill. So when a doctor invites him to sit in on an operation, Queen braces his stomach. As it happens, his stomach is spared, but his brain must go to work. The patient is Abigail Doorn, a millionairess in a diabetic coma. To prepare her for surgery, the hospital staff has stabilized her blood sugar level and wheeled her to the operating theater—but just before the first incision, the doctors realize she is dead, strangled while lying unconscious on her gurney. Queen came to the hospital to watch surgeons work, but now it’s his time to operate.

Author : Barbara Hammet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cross-stich
ISBN : 0715322435

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Ancient Egyptian Cross Stitch by Barbara Hammet Pdf

Depicting the art, architecture, landscape, people, animals, and gods of the ancient Egyptians in cross stitch designs, this book includes 25 projects, such as pictures, wall hangings, cushions, box lids and greetings cards, each described with step-by-step stitching and making-up instructions.

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453229255

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The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen Pdf

A murder in a crowded Broadway theater presents a full house of suspects—the first in this classic mystery series starring Ellery Queen! Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it’s packed to the gills with action, explosions, and gunfire. In fact, Gunplay is so loud that no one notices the killing of Monte Field. In a sold-out theater, Field is found dead partway through the second act, surrounded by empty seats. The police hold the crowd and call for the one man who can untangle this daring murder: Inspector Richard Queen. With the help of his son Ellery, a bibliophile and novelist whose imagination can solve any crime, the Inspector attacks this seemingly impenetrable mystery. Anyone in the theater could have killed the unscrupulous lawyer, and several had the motive. Only Ellery Queen, in his debut novel, can decipher the clue of the dead man’s missing top hat.

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049982805

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The French Powder Mystery by Ellery Queen Pdf

A corpse in a department store window offers a gruesome puzzle for Ellery Queen The windows of French’s department store are one of New York’s great attractions. Year-round, their displays show off the finest in fashion, art, and home décor, and tourists and locals alike make a point of stopping to see what’s on offer. One afternoon, as the board debates a merger upstairs, a salesgirl begins a demonstration in one of the windows, showing off French’s new Murphy bed. A crowd gathers to watch the bed lower from the wall after a single touch of a button. But as the bed opens, people run screaming. Out tumbles a woman—crumpled, bloody, and dead. The victim was Mrs. French, wife of the company president, and finding her killer will turn this esteemed store upside down. Only one detective has the soft touch necessary—debonair intellectual Ellery Queen. As Queen and his police inspector father dig into French’s secrets, they find their killer is more serious than any window shopper.

Author : J. S. Fletcher
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041804535

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The Charing Cross Mystery by J. S. Fletcher Pdf

The Charing Cross Mystery follows a young lawyer, Hetherwick, who happens to be on a train alongside a former police inspector who dies suddenly in front of him. The other man in the carriage runs off at the next stop and vanishes. Hetherwick takes it upon himself to investigate what turns out to be a murder. J. S. Fletcher originally wrote the story in 1922 for a weekly magazine, who called it Black Money. It was published in a single volume in 1923 as The Charing Cross Mystery and immediately had to be reprinted because of its popularity. The novel is a classic Edwardian detective novel where the plot twists and turns as more and more people become involved in the investigation, both as investigators and as suspects.

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049982775

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The American Gun Mystery by Ellery Queen Pdf

When a Western star is gunned down at a rodeo, Ellery Queen saddles up Buck Horne has roped thousands of cattle, slugged his way out of dozens of saloons, and shot plenty of men dead in the street—but always on the backlot. He is a celluloid cowboy, and his career is nearly kaput. The real box office draw is his daughter, Kit, a brawling beauty who can outshoot any rascal the studio has to offer. Desperate for a comeback, Buck joins Wild Bill Grant’s traveling rodeo for a show in New York, hoping to impress Hollywood and land one last movie contract. But he has scarcely mounted his horse when he falls to the dirt. It wasn’t age that made him slip—it was the bullet in his heart. Watching from the stands are Ellery Queen, debonair sleuth, and his police detective father. They are New Yorkers through and through, but to solve the rodeo killing, the Queens must learn to talk cowboy.

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453289389

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The Egyptian Cross Mystery by Ellery Queen Pdf

One of the great Golden Age detectives is back in a mystery that “pioneered a style which countless writers would follow in the decades to come” (American Culture). It’s Christmas in Chicago, and Inspector Richard Queen is enjoying a busman’s holiday at a conference on gangland violence—but his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, isbored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia: A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified. Ellery hustles his father into his roadster and heads east, since there is nothing he’d like better for Christmas than a juicy, gruesome puzzle. When the Queens arrive in Arroyo, they learn that the victim was an eccentric atheist, but not the sort to make enemies. What initially looks to be the work of a sadistic cult turns out to be something far more sinister. In the months ahead, more victims will turn up all over the world—all killed in the same horrifying manner. It will take several bodies before Queen divines the clue that unlocks the mystery of the Christmas crucifixion.

Author : Tom Phillips
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781645951070

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The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves 1: Egypt's Fire by Tom Phillips Pdf

Hilarious, non-stop adventure, a mysterious jewel heist, and a detective team like no other make this a must-have middle grade series starter. Perfect for fans of A Series of Unfortunate Events and Enola Holmes. After twelve-year-old John Boarhog’s mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when a rare Egyptian ruby—the highlight of the museum’s new exhibit—goes missing, John is accused of the crime. That is until the unpredictable Inspector Toadius McGee sweeps in to wrestle control of the case, certain that the true culprit is a notorious criminal he’s been tracking for years. John quickly becomes the Watson to Toadius’s Holmes as they race from Broadway to back alleys to a speak-easy that only serves root beer. And along the way, John uncovers secrets about his own past, including that he’s a lot more involved in this web of endearing ne'er-do-wells than he ever could have imagined. A love letter to classic middle grade, Egypt's Fire introduces a remarkable new duo that will steal your heart as surely as it leaves you begging for their next grand adventure. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : LCCN:80066281

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The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen Pdf