Ellery Queen #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Ellery Queen #4 An anthology issue containing "The Crooked Mile," in which Ellery Queen investigates a murder connected to an escaped black bird. The detective uses forensic evidence—including traces of soap and laundry marks found on a suspect's hand—to solve the case and identify the culprit, who confesses after Queen's deduction. The issue also includes a text story about a man named John Hunt who drives through a snowstorm to retrieve his wife Lucy from a mysterious house, only to discover darker intentions awaiting them inside.
In "The Case of the Seventh Raven," investigator Emmet Blake finds himself drawn into a murder mystery during a quiet vacation, where a dead man and a raven with bloody feet point to a puzzle far from ordinary. As the clues pile up, Emmet must untangle the truth while a quiet tension simmers between him and Sally, whose patience for his aloofness is wearing thin.
Lovely Linda Haynes wins a golf tournament and is awarded a trophy — but soon after, she collapses and dies in the locker room after drinking champagne, sparking suspicion. Ellery Queen investigates, uncovering a web of jealousy among the players and a suspiciously purchased bottle of wine, as he works to untangle whether the poison was in the bottle all along or added just before she drank.
A young woman arrives at her sister’s apartment to find her brutally murdered, sparking a police investigation that traces a series of clues—including a mysterious time-table, a discarded shirt, and a taxi driver’s account—to a man named Robert Faye, a visitor who disappeared after the murder. As detectives piece together his movements and alibis, they uncover a web of deception that leads them to a final, desperate move in a race against time.
Ellery Queen and his assistant Nikki Porter are stranded on a treacherous mountain road during a violent storm, forced to seek shelter at a remote, foreboding house after their car narrowly avoids a collapse. As they are admitted by a reclusive woman who warns them of death and a wolf-like creature haunting the estate, strange occurrences and chilling revelations begin to unfold.
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Reprinted in Voodoo #1 (1952), Strange Fantasy #2 [1] (1952)
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