Books with author Ellery.- QUEEN

THE SIAMESE TWIN MYSTERY by Ellery Queen, World Publishing, A Tower Mystery, First Printing, 1945. This appears to be a First Printing, Book Club Edition. The book is navy blue with a printed Bat (in Blue) on the lower front corner. The dust jacket is different than the one pictured. The cover of the jacket depicts a playing card, (The Jack of Diamonds) a picture of a man in a suit in a field of bright orange trees, possibly trees a blaze in fire. A forest fire which hems in a mountain-top mansion on every side creeps gradually closer and closer is the sinister background for this equally sinister tale of murder. It was murder with such complicated and subtle clues that no one but Ellery Queen could have untangled the web, and even he thought more than once the he held the end in his hands only to discover that it was really a loose end. WOW! Awesome Mystery!

[Childrens Fiction (Ages 10-12)] 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 covered load that passed them on the road when they were going fishing. Clue follows clue, and when the Scottie gets himself all smeared with fresh paint, and Clarabelle spoils a picture, Djuna emerges as a regular Ellery Queen!