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 “Rathsville” Ellery case. Having undertaken to understand the circumstances of the disappearance of the “city drunkard”, Quinn Jr. does not suspect that he will be investigating a chain of mysterious deaths, no visible connections between which can be traced. But this is if you think rationally...