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There Was an Old Woman

The Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1943

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There Was an Old Woman

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
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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.

©2014 Ellery Queen (P)2014 Blackstone Audiobooks Mystery Fiction Crime

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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.

Standard Queen: a good story but not his best

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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.

rubbish

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