The French Powder Mystery, Ellery Queen
The French Powder Mystery, Ellery Queen
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The French Powder Mystery

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Robert Fass

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2013

Synopsis

French's department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele. But no one there could be proud of its latest exclusive window display: the bloodstained corpse of the owner's wife. Ellery Queen and his father, Inspector Richard Queen, soon discover that this palace of commerce is a viper's nest of fear, jealousy, suspicion, and hatred, where love is cheap and the price of honor marked down. But worst of all is the mysterious mocking mastermind who is out to turn the glittering store into a bargain basement of murder.

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 Robert Fass

Winner of the prestigious Audie Award (for History and Audio Drama), veteran actor Robert Fass is equally at home in a wide variety of styles, genres, characters, and dialects. A seven-time Audie nominee with over 100 unabridged audiobooks to his credit, Robert has also earned multiple Earphones Awards, including for his narration of Joe Golem and the Drowning City by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. Robert has given voice to modern and classic fiction writers alike, including Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, John Steinbeck, Carlos Fuentes, Isaac Asimov, Ellery Queen, Steve Berry, Jeffrey Deaver, and Nele Neuhaus, plus bestselling nonfiction works in history, politics, health, journalism, philosophy, and business.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luffy Sempai on March 05, 2016

The title is misleading. There are two different powders present on the crime scene, but the case cannot be summed up in this title. I like this book. In the past perhaps it would have earned a perfect five stars. Just a friction in the reading experience which denied this fine book a perfect score.......more

Goodreads review by William on May 07, 2015

Another entry in the Quest for Christie-Likes: I've now read entries from something close to 10 authors writing in the same time and neighborhood as Agatha Christie. Ellery Queen (really a pseudonym for a writing team of two cousins) belongs right below John Dickson Carr and certainly belongs well wi......more

Goodreads review by Tim on April 09, 2010

Come with me to the heyday of the early portion of the twentieth century. Walk with me through the streets of New York, and stop, if you will, at one of the grand old department stores that I have never seen but only read about in books. I am talking about a store of many floors, full of salespeople......more

Goodreads review by Anastasia on August 14, 2019

The French Powder Mystery by Ellery Queen is the 2nd book in the Ellery Queen Mystery series. The body of Mrs French, wife of the department store owner, is displayed in the stores window display. I reread this book after an interval of over 40 years and I enjoyed it just as much as before. I love t......more

Goodreads review by Bev on April 30, 2018

The French Powder Mystery (1930) by Ellery Queen has a quite startling beginning. A crowd is gathered on the sidewalk outside of French's Department Store (a very Macy's-like place) eager to watch the daily demonstration of the latest in modern furnishings. The store employee steps into the model li......more

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