Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Queen, Ellery.

Description

1. vii, 502 p.; 21 cm.

Alternative title

1. Challenge to the reader

Genre/Form

1. Detective and mystery fiction.

Contents

1. Challenge to the reader -- The long dinner -- The case of Mr. Foggatt -- The magic flame -- The adopted daughter -- The honour of Israel Gow -- Walker's holiday -- The superfluous finger -- Double vision -- Scrambled yeggs -- The vanished crown -- Bullets -- Footsteps -- The poetical policeman -- The survivor -- A man called Knott -- The Edinburgh mystery -- Triangle at Rhodes -- The stolen Shakespeare -- Twelve little nigger boys -- The riddle of the 5.28 -- The border-line case -- The poisoned pen -- The soul of the schoolboy -- The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax -- The hanging acrobat.

Call number

1. JFD 06-8164

Note

1. Twenty-five detective stories, each relating an episode in the career of a famous fiction detective presented with his name changed, for the reader to identify.

Title

1. Ellery Queen's Challenge to the reader : an anthology.

Imprint

1. New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938.

Added author

1. Queen, Ellery.

LCCN

1. 38034127

Research call number

1. JFD 06-8164