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The French Powder Mystery
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The French Powder Mystery Paperback - 2015

by Ellery Queen

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A stylish puzzle mystery from the author who "took the intellectual game that was the formal detective novel to greater heights than any American writer" (The Weekly Standard).
The windows of French's department store are one of New York's great attractions. Year-round, their displays show off the finest in fashion, art, and home dcor, and tourists and locals alike make a point of stopping to see what's on offer. One afternoon, as the board debates a merger upstairs, a salesgirl begins a demonstration in one of the windows, showing off French's new Murphy bed. A crowd gathers to watch the bed lower from the wall after a single touch of a button. But as the bed opens, people run screaming. Out tumbles a woman--crumpled, bloody, and dead. The victim was Mrs. French, wife of the company president, and finding her killer will turn this esteemed store upside down. Only one detective has the soft touch necessary--debonair intellectual Ellery Queen. As Queen and his police inspector father dig into French's secrets, they find their killer is more serious than any window shopper.

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  • Title The French Powder Mystery
  • Author Ellery Queen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 403
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road
  • Publication date 2015-01-20
  • ISBN 9781497697645 / 1497697646
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.25 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.34 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Police
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Ellery Queen was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery. Although eventually famous on television and radio, Queen's first appearance came in 1928, when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book that was later published as The Roman Hat Mystery. Their character was an amateur detective who uses his spare time to assist his police inspector uncle in solving baffling crimes. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee's death.

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