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  • There Was an Old Woman

  • The Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1943
  • By: Ellery Queen
  • Narrated by: Mark Peckham
  • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)
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There Was an Old Woman

By: Ellery Queen
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Summary

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.

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Standard Queen: a good story but not his best

This has all the elements of a classic Queen. Murder in New York. Ellery's father is baffled, but Ellery solves it. The solution is more obvious than some.

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rubbish

Queen's books are always far-fetched but this reaches new depths of stupidity, with
father and son excelling in arrogance, negligence and irresponsibility. The silly use of fancy vocabulary is made laughable by inappropriate pronunciation. For the first time, I gave up half way through.

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