Terror Town

The Roman Hat Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No

Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it’s packed to the gills with action, explosions, and gunfire. In fact, Gunplay is so loud that no one notices the killing of Monte Field. In a sold-out theater, Field is found dead partway through the second act, surrounded by empty seats. The police... Read more »

The French Powder Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

French’s department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele. But no one there could be proud of its latest exclusive window display: the bloodstained corpse of the owner’s wife. Ellery Queen and his father, Inspector Richard Queen, soon discover that this palace of commerce is a viper’s nest of fear, jealousy,... Read more »

The Dutch Shoe Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No

When Abigail Doorn was wheeled into the operation room at the Dutch Memorial Hospital, her face was strangely blue and bloated. A wire had been tightly wound around her neck. The strongest suspect, because he stood to benefit by the death of this wealthy old woman, was her protege, the famous Dr. Janney. Just before her death he received a... Read more »

The Greek Coffin Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No

In one of his earliest cases, Ellery Queen confronts a murderin blue blood.

From the very beginning, the Khalkis case struck a sombernote. It began, as was peculiarly harmonious in the light of what was to come,with the death of an old man. Georg Khalkis, internationally famous art dealerand collector, died of heart failure. After his funeral,... Read more »

The Egyptian Cross Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a smalltown’s Christmas.

It’s Christmas in Chicago, and Detective Richard Queen isenjoying 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 anunusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia. A schoolmaster... Read more »

The American Gun Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Dan Butler
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No

When a Western star is gunned down at a rodeo, Ellery Queensaddles up to solve the mystery.

Buck Horne has roped thousands of cattle, slugged his wayout of dozens of saloons, and shot plenty of men dead in the street—but alwayson the backlot. He’s a celluloid cowboy, and his career is nearly kaput. Thereal box office draw is his daughter, Kit, a... Read more »

The Siamese Twin Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

Trapped on a burning mountain, the Queens take refuge with akiller.

Dashing detective Ellery Queen and his father are drivingover the pothole-scarred Arrow Mountain Road when they come face to face with awall of flame. They tear back in the other direction, fire at their fenders,and finally find safety in a clearing, at the home of Dr. Xavier, a... Read more »

The Chinese Orange Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

A puzzling publishing murder attracts the eye of ElleryQueen.

Mandarin Press is a premier publishing house for foreignliterature, but to those at the top of this enterprise, there is little morebeautiful than a rare stamp. As Donald Kirk, publisher and philatelist,prepares his office for a banquet, an unfamiliar man comes to call. No... Read more »

The Adventures of Ellery Queen

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No

In these rippingshort stories, the mystery genre’s greatest sleuth shows his chops.

For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannotsolve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protectedonly by the might of his brain—and the odd bit of timely intervention by hisfather, a burly New York police inspector. But when a... Read more »

The Spanish Cape Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

On a seaside vacation, Ellery Queen is ensnared in a trio ofstrange crimes.

Spanish Cape is a dramatic promontory, its rocky cliffstopped with a picturesque hacienda. This isolated spot belongs to millionaireWalter Godfrey and it should be a peaceful family getaway—but one summerevening, Rosa Godfrey argues with her uncle David as he tries to... Read more »

Halfway House

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

The victim had lived two lives, but a single knife thrust ended both of them. The trail of suspicion led into the guilt-edged world of the beautiful people—and climaxed in a vicious courtroom battle that ended with a shattering verdict. It seemed that for the first time Ellery had met his match—until the sleuth blended his usual impeccable logic... Read more »

The Door Between

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

When Ellery Queen first meets the award-winning novelist Karen Leith, it is at a party held to celebrate her most recent prize in literature. The next time he hears of her, she is dead—murdered, so the police suspect, by the daughter of her fiancé, the eminent cancer researcher Dr. John MacClure. With no other suspects and only circumstantial... Read more »

The Devil to Pay

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

When Hollywood bigwig Solly Spaeth is murdered, thousands cheer. He is a most popular corpse, for Solly’s stock manipulations have ruined many, including his partner. A cut-and-dried case—or so it appears. Enter master detective Ellery Queen, whose embarrassing questions uncover a maze of conflicting alibis and motives, and ultimately reveal a... Read more »

The Four of Hearts

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

It was a script that could only have come from Hollywood: the wedding of two superstars after a scandal-filled courtship ... a wild trip by private plane to a hideaway ... a deadly double overdose of drugs ...These corpses weren't play-acting. Once again Ellery was cast in the role of master detective, as he found nothing was quite what it... Read more »

The Dragon’s Teeth

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No

Eccentric multimillionaire Cadmus Cole hires Ellery Queen toinvestigate a case but won’t say what it is. When Cole dies mysteriously atsea, Queen and his partner, Beau Rummell, must navigate a thicket of complicationsthat includes a fifty-million-dollar legacy, two beautiful but avaricious womenvying for the inheritance, a will with some odd... Read more »

The New Adventures of Ellery Queen

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No

Trick I—The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear—each as dead as the other.

Trick II—From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a distance of twelve feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch... Read more »

The Black Dog Mystery

By: Ellery Queen Jr.
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

When there’s a bank robbery in the country village where Djuna lives, and one of his dog’s best friends gets shot in the escape, the boy makes up his mind he’ll find out who did it. His chum and his dog Champ are in on the hunt and two heads and a keen nose are better than one. The boys remember something queer they noticed about a truck with a... Read more »

The Golden Eagle Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

Djuna and his dog Champgo to Stony Harbor to spend what he thinks will be a quiet and uneventfulholiday in a seaside village. But little does Djuna know what is in store!

First he meets BillyReckless and his dog Alberto. Then there’s the mystery which enshrouds Djuna’sAunt Patty. Things begin to happen! Djuna has a grand time with his... Read more »

Calamity Town

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No

Looking for trouble,Ellery Queen descends on a small town.

At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there isnowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression hasabated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope inWrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death.

The mystery author is hoping... Read more »

There Was an Old Woman

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

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... Read more »

The Green Turtle Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

Djuna and Ben weren't sure they believed in ghosts. The little girl who opened the door of the haunted house didn't look like a ghost yet she vanished into thin air. They had to find out what happened to her. And they had to rescue Waterbury, the time-telling turtle who walked into the deserted house-and didn't walk out. Djuna found clues and he... Read more »

The Murderer Is a Fox

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Could murder really be hereditary?Davy Fox certainly thinks so. When he was only a boy, his father, Bayard Fox,was convicted of murdering Davy’s mother in the small town of Wrightsville. Nowthat Davy has grown up and returned home from the war, he fears that it is onlya matter of time until he kills his own wife. But could he really do such... Read more »

The Red Chipmunk Mystery

By: Ellery Queen Jr.
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 4 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

This is the wonderful adventure story of Djuna, a young boy who uses his eyes and his head and his little Scottie dog, Champ, who uses his nose to sniff out clues. There is also Mr. Scissors, the traveling knife grinder, who is driving though the country in a wonderful caravan with his young granddaughter, Joan. There are also two wicked men who... Read more »

The Brown Fox Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

When those two enthusiastic fishermen, Djuna and his friend Tommy, are offered a chance to spend the summer at fish-filled Silver Lake as the guests of Miss Annie Ellery, they are overjoyed. But great as the fishing proves to be, there is more in store: Silver Lake holds a mystery and the boys find themselves swept up in a series of exciting and... Read more »

Ten Days’ Wonder

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No

Ellery Queen is persuaded to accompany an old friend and sculptor to his ancestral home when the latter arrives at Ellery’s house covered in blood and unable to remember anything from the past few weeks. Once there, tensions erupt and foul play results in the murder of one of the household’s members. Among the many transgressions Ellery will... Read more »

Cat of Many Tails

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

The silent rush of footsteps, the muffled shriek, the ever-tightening noose of exotic silk … the mark of the Cat. The Cat had claimed number nine.

The Cat had nine kills, but Ellery Queen found number ten alive and offered the victim temptingly to the killer. The trap was baited, and Ellery and the police poised for the strike that had to come.... Read more »

The White Elephant Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

Free passes tothe circus seemed pretty exiting to Djuna and his friend Tommy Williams, andthings promised to be even more exiting when they met their old friends Sockerand Cannonball at the entrance gate, but they were only the start of ahair-raising experience.

The boys soon learned that the newspaper reporter and thestate trooper were trying to... Read more »

Double, Double

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No

Ellery Queen returned to Wrightsville to solve the mystery of a rich man—believed poor—who died of “old age,” a poor man—believed rich—who committed suicide, and a scholarly drunk who disappeared. Shortly it occurred to Queen that the puzzle had a pattern. A twisted mind was committing murder according to an old nursery rhyme! Doctor, lawyer,... Read more »

The Origin of Evil

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Fred Sullivan
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

Having escaped New York with the hopes of finishing his latestmystery novel in peace in Los Angeles, Ellery Queen is shocked when a knock onhis door lands him right in the middle of yet another mystery.

Leander Hill, a prominent Hollywood jeweler, recently died ofa heart attack after receiving a package containing a dead dog, a sight... Read more »

The Yellow Cat Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

In The Yellow Cat Mystery, amateur sleuth Djuna visits his friendTommy in Florida. His yellow cat has a sore tooth, and they set off to see thedentist. The dentist is new to the town and doesn’t seem to be able to helpthem. They do, however, notice two persons who came from a mysteriousblack-lacquered ship at sea—and a normal day suddenly... Read more »

The Blue Herring Mystery

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No

Mysteries have a way of finding Djuna, and this time a missing page from an old ship's log and the dead captain's haunted house start the ball rolling. Djuna has learned that Captain Beekman brought a treasure from his whaling trips. Who can have an interest in letting the boy get lost? Was Djuna close to the answer of the mystery? Read more »

The Mystery of the Vanished Victim

By: Ellery Queen Jr.
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

"Katal!" The black bird repeated the two syllables again and again. "Katal! Katal!" As Gulliver Queen seeks out the meaning of the strange word, he is drawn into the world of international diplomacy-and dangerous espionage! As he follows the trail of clues, Gully acquires two friends from India who aid him in the search for a missing embassy... Read more »

The Mystery of the Merry Magician

By: Ellery Queen Jr.
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

Gulliver Queen, nephew of the famous detective, Ellery Queen, doesn't want to be a detective. But when Gully and his new friend, Fisty Jones, investigate the strange underwater noises in the Hudson River, they suddenly find themselves deep in a mystery that Gully can't resist tackling. The menacing tattooed man, the weird one-eyed figure in the... Read more »

QBI

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Queen’s Bureau of Investigation is now open for business—and in each department of this new enterprise Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise the brilliant, ingenious, and at times startling talents of his crime-lab mind. For to the bureau come some of the most plaguey cases in Queen’s career.

In “The Three Widows,” two of Theodore... Read more »

The Player on the Other Side

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No

A five-sided card with the letter “J” stamped on itappeared in Robert York’s mail, and a day later he was dead, crushed by aboulder. It was no accident. Someone knew York would be under that rock wall atprecisely 7:30. Then another card showed up for Emily York, stamped with theletter “H,” and Ellery Queen knew he was up against a brilliant... Read more »

Queens Full

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No

Since his first novel,Ellery Queen has been in the top ranks of the world’s detective-story writers.He has been equally successful with short stories and novelettes written formagazines. This rare volume is a collection of some of Queen’s best, containingthree novelettes and two short stories. The stories include “The Death of Don Juan,” “The... Read more »

A Study in Terror

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes match wits to reveal theidentity of history’s most infamous and depraved killer.

Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes are the undisputed masters ofanalytical deduction—their talents and methods strikingly, almost uncannily,alike. Through the strange interlocking of events past and present, the twocelebrated detectives... Read more »

The Purple Bird Mystery

By: Ellery Queen Jr.
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No

What is the connection of "Fowl Relief" and an English golf-playing king? Does the nickname of Jimmy Douglas' great-great-grandfather have any significance? Tie these answers with the other clues and the mystery of the purple bird is solved, but not until Djuna, the brilliant young sleuth, and his pal Jimmy go through an ordeal that almost takes... Read more »

Face to Face

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

Gloria Guild is the singing “glory” of the thirtiesand the millionairess wife of Count Carlos Armando, renowned only for hissuccession of wealthy wives. When she is murdered, her husband is the obvioussuspect, but he has a perfect alibi. So who could he have got to do it for him?The only clue is the word “face,” penned in her dying scrawl. But... Read more »

QED

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

Let Ellery Queen clue you in on hisspecial brand of high tension, brain-teasing mystery! This collection consistsof novelettes and short stories from Queen’s many escapades. Stories include “MumIs the Word,” “Object Lesson,” “No Parking,” “No Place to Live,” “Miracles DoHappen,” “The Lonely Bride,” “Mystery at the Library of Congress,”... Read more »

The House of Brass

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

You are invited to a murder.

That was how theinvitations should have read when aged millionaire Hendrik Brass sent out hismessages to six oddly assorted men and women who knew neither him nor each other.All arrived at the isolated Brass mansion, lured by the tantalizing promise offabulous wealth. But from the moment the shining brass doors of the... Read more »

The Last Woman in His Life

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No

John Lovering Benedicthad more than most men—more money, more mansions, more cars, but most of allmore women, including three ex-wives with little in common but theirextraordinary physiques. For Ellery Queen the question was which one of themhad bashed in Benedict’s skull with a hunk of iron statuary? The clues weremany … but puzzling. All had... Read more »

The Honest Swindler

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 10 minutes
Abridged: No

Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.In “The Honest Swindler,” Ellery is challenged to solve an imaginary riddle devised by three members of the Puzzle Club. He must explain how an old prospector could have spent five years on a fruitless uranium hunt and still... Read more »

The Three Students

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.In “The Three Students,” Ellery is challenged to solve an imaginary riddle devised by three members of the Puzzle Club. He must decide which of the titular trio (handily named Adams, Barnes, and Carver) stole a valuable ring... Read more »

A Fine and Private Place

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

The final novel by the legendary Ellery Queen, A Fine and Private Place ranks withQueen’s incomparable best.

The nine-word clue was one of nine cryptic notes that hadbeen sent to taunt Inspector Queen and his son Ellery nine days after themurder. Nino Importuna had been obsessed with the number. He had lived by it.Now the killer who brought a... Read more »

The Reindeer Clue

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time. Read more »

Terror Town

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes
Abridged: No

Previously part of a collection, this rare Ellery Queen mystery is available as a stand-alone audiobook for the first time.In “Terror Town,” the small New England town of Northfield is deftly sketched as the background for a series of violent deaths, all on the exact same spot: the muddy gravesite where the first body, that of a farmer’s son,... Read more »

The Tragedy of Errors, and Others

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Traber Burns
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

The Tragedy of Errors is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final but never published Ellery Queen novel, containing all the hallmarks of the greatest Queen mysteries—the dying message, the succession of false solutions before the astonishing truth is revealed, and scrupulous fair play to the listener. And the theme is one that Queen... Read more »

Inspector Queen's Own Case

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No

For years, Inspector Richard Queen had been outshone by his writer son. Now, with Ellery away, he had a case all his own—or did he? The verdict had been accidental death, and only the victim’s nurse had seen the one thing that made it murder. Recruiting a senior citizens corps of retired cops, Dick Queen tracked a murderer—and found himself... Read more »

And on the Eighth Day

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

While stranded in thedesert, Ellery Queen stumbles across a religious cult.

It’s 1943, the war is raging, and sleuthing scribeEllery Queen wants to do his bit. After a tortuous cross-country drive, hetakes a job writing scripts for a Hollywood propaganda house—twelve hours a dayof hack work that quickly turns his mind to jelly. After a few weeks,... Read more »