There Was an Old Woman, Ellery Queen
There Was an Old Woman, Ellery Queen
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There Was an Old Woman

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Mark Peckham

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2014

Synopsis

Once upon an evil time, there was a wicked old woman with a mammoth shoe company worth many millions of dollars, a henpecked husband, and six miserable children. Then one day death came visiting the vast Potts mansion—and began claiming its inhabitants one by one. It was then that Ellery Queen was invited to sup on this nightmare brew of diabolical murder and baffling mystery—in a case that made the most horrific crimes in his entire career seem like fairy tales. As he endeavors to solve the case, he tries to make sense of this family that defies rationality.

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 Mark Peckham

Mark Peckham is an actor and director based in Rhode Island. In addition to working with Trinity Rep, Virginia Stage Co., and many Boston-area theaters, he was the voice of Joseph Smith in the award-winning PBS documentary American Prophet with Gregory Peck.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John

My 666 book in Goodreads. It’s good that it features the evil Mrs. Cornelia Potts. She is a tyrannical elderly woman who rules the Potts shoe empire with an iron hand. She is nicknamed by newspapers as the old woman who lives in the shoe as her house is shaped like it. She has six children, three fr......more

Goodreads review by Jimmy Lee

You read one Ellery Queen, and suddenly you're in the mood for nothing but more Ellery Queen. Fortunately there are some 24 Ellery Queen books, and a few collections compiled with introductions by Ellery, not to mention short stories by Ellery...because no one writes like cousins Daniel Nathan (pen......more

Goodreads review by Katrin

en yleensä lue rikostarinoita. ei ole mun suosikki laji. mutta kunhan löysin kirjan kreeta-saarella muiden suomenkielisen kirjoiden kanssa ja jätin muita kirjoja sinne, oli pakko lukea sen. toivon, että myös tämä auttaisi suomen kielen taidon säilyttämiseen. juoni oli hyvää ja täytyy sanoa että vars......more

Goodreads review by JDL

(Some talk about the ending - no names named but some details which may be spoilery.) I haven't really read any 3rd period Queen, but I know what they're like - while they have murders with stunning solutions, the mysteries are supposed to take backseat to the characterization, especially the citizen......more

Quotes

“Suspects and clues all over the place—so many that even Ellery Queen is almost stumped. One of the very best of the Ellery Queen mysteries.” New York Times

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