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Drury Lane's Last Case (1933)

by Ellery Queen

Series: Drury Lane (4)

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Ellery Queen challenges you to solve these clues to death. A thin envelope-worth a man's life. A shattered display case-whose stolen contents a thief replaced with a strange manuscript. The murder symbol: 3HS wM ... the queer cipher found to be an old mark of death. These are but a few of the baffling signs Drury Lane follows down a path of deception and murder to one of the most startling climaxes in mystery fiction.… (more)
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  ME_Dictionary | Mar 20, 2020 |
This turned out to be a complicated mystery with a very surprising ending. It is the first I've read in this short series and I plan to read the others. Just wished I'd not read this one first.

This was not what is usual in an Ellery Queen plot. There were a good number of clues, many of them very subtle. Also a lot of surprise turns on the path to the solution.

A man with a rainbow coloured beard, a sealed envelope not to be opened unless a phone call wasn't received, William Shakespear, rare books, twins and more. These are just some of the clues and characters involved.

I enjoyed this read and took my time with it. ( )
  ChazziFrazz | Jun 23, 2016 |
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  archivomorero | Aug 20, 2023 |
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Ellery Queen challenges you to solve these clues to death. A thin envelope-worth a man's life. A shattered display case-whose stolen contents a thief replaced with a strange manuscript. The murder symbol: 3HS wM ... the queer cipher found to be an old mark of death. These are but a few of the baffling signs Drury Lane follows down a path of deception and murder to one of the most startling climaxes in mystery fiction.

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