Ellery Queen

È successo ancora. Lo scultore Howard Van Horn si risveglia in uno squallido albergo nei bassifondi di New York dopo l'ennesimo episodio di amnesia. Ha addosso del sangue non suo e i segni di una colluttazione. Forse questa volta, durante il lungo blackout di cui nulla ricorda, ha davvero fatto quello che si aspettava, prima o poi: forse ha commesso un omicidio.C'e solo una persona in grado di aiutarlo a risolvere l'enigma di un delitto che potrebbe non essere mai avvenuto: il suo vecchio amico Ellery Queen. Insieme andranno a Wrightsville, nella dimora di famiglia del New England dove tutti i segreti giacciono in attesa di essere riportati alla superficie. Ed e la che, nel corso di una serie di giorni funestati da misteriosi eventi, Ellery si trovera dapprima invischiato nei complicati legami famigliari ed emotivi dei Van Horn, per fronteggiare poi uno dei casi piu incredibili nella sua carriera di investigatore.

In eleven stories, the brilliant sleuth tangles with a book thief, an assassin who targets acrobats, and more . . .For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brainand the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police inspector. But when a university professor asks Queen to teach a class, the detective finds there are people whom reason cannot touch: college students. Queens adventure on campus is only the first of this incomparable collection of short mysteries. In these pages, he tangles with a violent book thief, an assassin who targets acrobats, and New Yorks only cleanly shaven bearded lady. Criminals everywhere fear him, whether they work in mansions or back alleys. No mystery is too difficult for the man with the golden brain.

Ellery Queen y su padre deben poner todo su ingenio a trabajar para resolver un caso en el que todo parece duplicado: los muertos, los hermanos, las claves, las soluciones y quizá incluso los culpables. Pero no hay nada que se resista a la sagacidad e imaginacion de los Queen.

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