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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Ellery Queen

Mow, you can choose any three of their top ten mystery collections for only $1 each ($3 plus shipping) as your introduction to Ellery Queen's Mystery Club. Each collection features short stories and novellas by some of the most famous masters ...
Halfway House

Halfway House

Ellery Queen

To help him unravel the mystery, Bill calls on his old friend Ellery Queen. But first Queen will have to unravel the victim's double life - starting with the shack where he's been found dead, smack dab between two very different worlds.
The Door Between

The Door Between

Ellery Queen

The only one who can help her clear her name is mystery writer Ellery Queen, an acquaintance of the victim through New York’s literary circles.
The Finishing Stroke

The Finishing Stroke

Ellery Queen

Among the twelve invited guests is Ellery Queen, a newly published mystery writer planning to enjoy every last minute.
The Origin of Evil

The Origin of Evil

Ellery Queen

When Priam begins to receive a series of less than pleasant 'gifts', master detective Ellery Queen must discern the pattern that connects the clues and the notes, and entrap the criminal.
Calamity Town

Calamity Town

Ellery Queen

Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville.
The Four of Hearts

The Four of Hearts

Ellery Queen

Bascom wants the four actors to play themselves in the film. The film's producer insists on bringing Ellery Queen, a successful New York writer, out to Hollywood to help close the deal.
The Scarlet Letters

The Scarlet Letters

Ellery Queen

Her once loving husband, Dirk, has become violent and controlling, and she doesn't know why. When she reaches out to their friend, mystery-solver Ellery Queen for help, Dirk interrupts their meeting in a drunken rage.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Ellery Queen

Anna Rauch visited the place where they were lodging and asked if they had anything to sell. "Don Fernando was out, and his wife decided to part with a very wonderful Spanish shawl, embroidered in a marvelous manner, which had been  ...
The King is Dead

The King is Dead

Ellery Queen

So when the day comes, the King is kept in a hermetically sealed room while his brother is guarded by Ellery himself. But the King is still shot... This is the ultimate in locked-door mysteries from a classic master of the genre.
A Study in Terror

A Study in Terror

Ellery Queen

Queen’s surprise turns to amazement as he turns its pages and discovers the lost story of Sherlock Holmes’s greatest case: the pursuit of Jack the Ripper.
Slavery

Slavery

William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing. CHAPTER VII. ABOLITIONISM. The word Abolitionist, in its true meaning, comprehends every man who feels himself bound to exert his influence for removing slavery. It is a name of honorable import, and was worn, ...
Faulkner and Print Culture

Faulkner and Print Culture

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Although hardly alone in the error, Hans Skei typifies the failure of Faulkner critics to credit the Ellery Queen reprints of “The Hound.” See Hans Skei, Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999), ...
Queen: The Complete Illustrated Lyrics

Queen: The Complete Illustrated Lyrics

Queen (Musical group)

Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Queen, one of the most influential bands in history, this complete Queen lyric book, the first of its kind, includes hundreds of images that accompany the songs, from handwritten lyrics to ...
Papers of John Adams

Papers of John Adams

John Adams

1Probably Francis Dana Jr. (1777–1853), who graduated from Harvard in 1796 ( Eliza- beth Ellery Dana, Dana Family in ... AA wrote Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Francis Dana's wife, indicating that her unborn daughter should be named Harriet and ...
Women and Power in American History

Women and Power in American History

More editions

Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Diary for 1870, entries for Mar. 19, May 20, and May 23, Dana Family Papers, Schlesinger Library. 19. Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Diary for 1868, entries for Oct. 9, Nov. 5, for example. The whole family commented on Aunt ...
The Queen & Us: The Second Elizabethan Age

The Queen & Us: The Second Elizabethan Age

Nigel Nicolson

Now with a new introduction by Charles Anson CVO, former Press Secretary to the Queen, the book explores questions like, What is the Queen like? What does she do? What is the future of the monarchy?
Queen: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother:

Queen: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother:

William Shawcross

‘Enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious’ Daily Mail Full of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the Queen Mother’s letters give readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face.
The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, ...

The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, ...

Lady Colin Campbell

Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the "most ...
On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots

On the Trail of Mary Queen of Scots

J. Keith Cheetham

Traces the tumultuous life of Mary Stuart, who became queen at the age of one week and was eventually beheaded for plotting against her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Victoria Biography

Queen Victoria Biography

Julia Baird

For readers of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra and Sally Bedell Smith's Elizabeth the Queen comes the story of the indefatigable British queen who built an empire and made the modern world: a sweeping, gorgeously written, page-turning new ...
Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Queen of Scots

Carol Schaefer

Presents a biography of Mary Queen of Scots, the Scottish queen whose power struggle with Elizabeth I of England ended with her beheading.
Elizabeth I: Queen of Tudor England

Elizabeth I: Queen of Tudor England

Myra Weatherly

A biography profiling the life of Queen Elizabeth I, the queen of England during the peak of the Renaissance era. Includes source notes and timeline.
Stolen Nights: A Vampire Queen Novel

Stolen Nights: A Vampire Queen Novel

Rebecca Maizel

After discovering that she is a centuries-old vampire queen, teenaged Lenah faces a heartbreaking choice as a vicious new vampire queen arrives to wreak havoc among Wickham Boarding School's students and staff.
Gloriana: The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I

Gloriana: The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I

Roy Strong

A detailed analysis of all of the major portraits of Queen Elizabeth I demonstrates how the restoration of stability to her socially and religiously divided country depended on the image of the Queen as a deified, all-powerful monarch.
Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen Without a Country

Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen Without a Country

Kathryn Lasky

Eleven-year-old Mary, the young Scottish queen, is sent a diary from her mother in which she records her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.
The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's ...

The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's ...

Matthew Dennison

Queen Victoria's favourite child - the true story of a royal mother-daughter relationship that changed history Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

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