The Honest Swindler, Ellery Queen
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The Honest Swindler

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2016


Synopsis

Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.In “The Honest Swindler,” Ellery is challenged to solve an imaginary riddle devised by three members of the Puzzle Club. He must explain how an old prospector could have spent five years on a fruitless uranium hunt and still have returned every penny of his backers’ money.

Author Bio

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.

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