Ellery Queen is a legendary amateur detective and writer of crime novels. Under his name, cousins Frederick Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred Lee (1905-1971) wrote a series of fascinating books that rank with the works of detective genre luminaries A. Christie, E. S. Gardner, R. Stout and J. D. Carr.

Another chapter of Ellery’s Hollywood adventures. Threats, death, love, happy ending - in general, typical Hollywood. But the genius of the younger Quinn is at its best here too.