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description: A new series of classic facsimile reprints selected and introduced by the internationally renowned editor and mystery expert Otto Penzler. - The Egyptian Cross Mystery has justly been called Ellery Queens weirdest adventure. On Christmas Eve, an eccentric schoolmaster in the little town of Arroyo, West Virginia was brutally murdered. Over the next year, three other men were found with their heads cut off, crucified likewise in the form of a T. Ellery Queen had the feeling that there was only one clue he didnt possess and that clue came to him with the fourth murder.
language: English
title: The Egyptian Cross Mystery
titlecomplete: The Egyptian Cross Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #5)
genres: Crime, American, Classics, Christmas, Mystery Thriller, Golden Age Mystery, New York, Fiction, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 1182
series: Ellery Queen Detective
publisher: Signet