Ellery Queen believed that he had seen many corpses in his time, but in this case he learned something new. This time it was not the killer, but the victim who paid with his head, and the headless body was nailed to an intricate cross... When Ellery faced his first murder , he was puzzled, after the second he began to think, and after the third he became convinced that there was a point to the killer’s madness. For the first time in his career, he had the opportunity to encounter a sophisticated crime...