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.

The death from a heart attack of one of the owners of a jewelry trading company would have remained listed as “natural causes” if not for his daughter, who turned to Ellery Queen and initiated the chain of events that led to solving this rather confusing and slightly crazy case.