Having escaped New York with the hopes of finishing his latest mystery novel in peace in Los Angeles, Ellery Queen is shocked when a knock on his door lands him right in the middle of yet another
mystery.
Leander Hill, a prominent Hollywood jeweler, recently died of a heart attack after receiving a package containing a dead dog, a sight that literally frightened him to death. Hill's daughter is
convinced the act was premeditated murder and enlists Queen's help to catch the killer. Now Queen must harness all of his skills to prevail over this unscrupulous mind.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“The absolute acme of intricate ingenuity.” —New York Times
“Ellery Queen, in fine form…The surmise-surprise package as before.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“The Origin of Evil has an abundance of mystery plot…It is a pleasure to read a book focused so strongly on mystery and detection.” —MysteryFile.com
Ellery Queen is a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn—Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905–1982), and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington
Lee (1905–1971)—to write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both the authors’ name and that of the detective-hero. The cousins
also cofounded and directed Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential English crime-fiction magazines of the twentieth century. They were given the Grand Master Award
for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.
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