Ten Days' Wonder by Ellery Queen (1948 Book Club Edition Hardcover without Dust Jacket)

Join the brilliant detective Ellery Queen as he unravels a complex and puzzling case filled with unexpected twists and turns.

The 19th novel in the Ellery Queen mystery-crime series produced from the collaboration of cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee finds writer and detective Ellery Queen returning to Wrightsville, the scene of a pair of earlier books ("Calamity Town" and "The Murderer Is A Fox"). Queen has received a desperate cry for help from Howard Van Horn, a millionaire's son, who needs to know why and how he recently staggered out of a Bowery flophouse beaten bloody, robbed and concussed. Queen's investigation quickly involves him in a puzzling and bewildering maze of criminality centered on the Van Horn estate and an array of suspects ranging from Van Horn's father's young wife to a mysterious, hundred-year-old woman who sometimes seems more a ghost than a person. vi + 265pp.

Adapted by Frederic Danny & Manfred Lee, with dialog by Paul Gegauff and Screenplay written by Eugene Archer & Paul Gardner for the 1971 Claude Chabrol film.

Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971). It is also the name of their main fictional detective.

Hardcover has grey cloth boards with navy lettering on spine and front covers, but has no Dust Jacket. Book Club Edition. Prior owner's signature on ffep, adds no value. Pages show age toning from outside in. Interior is tight, clean, and text unmarked. Always privately owned.

Copyright 1948. 19th Ellery Queen novel. Edition & print run info not found. Printed in U.S.A. No ISBN, LCCN, nor MSR.

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