Calendar of Crime, Ellery Queen
Calendar of Crime, Ellery Queen
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Calendar of Crime

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2015

Synopsis

In the merry month of May, Ellery Queen made a trek to Gettysburg to witness an annual celebration—and an annual murder. February found the ingenious Ellery locked in a furious battle of wits with a dead US president. These are but two of the twelve appointments with crime that make up Queen's baffling calendar of conundrums. Each elegant enigma ticks off all the surprise and excitement that have made Queen the dean of American detective fiction.Stories include "The Inner Circle," "The President's Half Dime," "The Ides of Michael Magoon," "The Emperor's Dice," "The Gettysburg Bugle," "The Medical Finger," "The Fallen Angel," "The Needle's Eye," "The Three R's," "The Dead Cat," "The Telltale Bottle," and "The Dauphin's Doll."

About Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen is a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn—Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905–1982), and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971)—to write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both the authors’ name and that of the detective-hero. The cousins also cofounded and directed Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential English crime-fiction magazines of the twentieth century. They were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.

About Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mizuki on November 16, 2018

2.5 stars, a few short stories are in fact clever and surprising, but the rest are just...dull.........more

Goodreads review by Gary on January 11, 2017

A mixed bag like most anthologies. These are middle era Queen mysteries dating from the early 1950s. Gone is the Queen's houseboy. Ellery now has a secretary, Nikki Porter. A story for each month 9f the year.......more

Goodreads review by Niki on August 29, 2019

I would say 2.5/5 for some were better than others - 12 months in a year and almost as many mystery murders, but also a hoax, some were not convincing at all - on top of it, i didn't like the writing, a lot of american slang, it felt like watching a television series......more

Goodreads review by Gabriele on November 12, 2021

"Il calendario del delitto" ("Calendar of Crime", 1952) è la terza raccolta di racconti di Ellery Queen, che riunisce 12 storie pubblicate precedentemente sulla "Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine" tra il 1946 e il 1951. Come si può desumere dal titolo, ogni racconto è difatti ambientato in uno dei mesi......more

Goodreads review by Cameron on December 22, 2019

A calendar of crime; this is what every mystery fan needs. I followed the rules by reading each story during the month assigned to it and am glad I did. These stories are what short mysteries ought to be. They're puzzles to be solved. The reader just needs to get into the spirit, follow the clues, a......more

Quotes

“Effective episodes…combine to show this virtuoso at his best.” Kirkus Reviews

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