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There Was an Old Woman
The Ellery Queen Mysteries (Book 1943)
- Author
- Ellery Queen
- Narrator
- Mark Peckham
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 February 2014
- Run Time
- 8 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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“Suspects and clues all over the place—so many that even Ellery Queen is almost stumped. One of the very best of the Ellery Queen mysteries.”
New York Times
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Details
- Author
- Ellery Queen
- Narrator
- Mark Peckham
- Duration
- 8 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 February 2014
- ISBN
- 9781620649862
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Adventure fiction
Synopsis
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.
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