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  • An Ellery Queen Mystery, Book 5
  • By: Ellery Queen
  • Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse
  • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (57 ratings)
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By: Ellery Queen
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Summary

The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a small town's Christmas.

It's Christmas in Chicago, and Detective Richard Queen is enjoying a busman's holiday at a conference on gangland violence - but his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, is bored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia. A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified. Ellery hustles his father into his roadster and heads east, since there is nothing he'd like better for Christmas than a juicy, gruesome puzzle.

When the Queens arrive in Arroyo, they learn that the victim was an eccentric atheist, but not the sort to make enemies. What initially looks to be the work of a sadistic cult turns out to be something far more sinister. In the months ahead, more victims will turn up all over the world - all killed in the same horrifying manner. It will take several bodies before Ellery divines the clue that unlocks the mystery of the Christmas crucifixion.

©1943 Ellery Queen (P)2013 AudioGO
Amateur Sleuths Traditional Detectives Suspense
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Boring

Wish I hadn’t bothered, stuck it to the end but I couldn’t recommend this book

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Dreadfully dull

Overly complicated and never-ending. Really struggled to get through this and gave up halfway through because the story wasn't engaging and I lost interest in the solution.

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Disappointing

I'm sorry everything about this book is poor, thank goodness it was included; even so spending nearly 12 hours listening to this, you feel let down, the narration was poor and the story irritating "but i'll get to that later" but I never will. I don't know how Ellery Queen got his reputation because the books that I have read are poor, the TV show and Films have been pretty good, funny and smart, this isn't.

Try reading R Austin Freeman, an author that pre dates Ellery Queen. Freeman is smart, sly and pretty funny in places, you do feel like you are immersed in his stories rather than just an observer.

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