Ellery Queen's Challenge to the reader
Subtitle: an anthology.
Contributors: Queen, Ellery.
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.
Other titles: Challenge to the reader
Notes: 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.
Table of contents: title: Challenge to the reader; title: The long dinner; title: The case of Mr. Foggatt; title: The magic flame; title: The adopted daughter; title: The honour of Israel Gow; title: Walker's holiday; title: The superfluous finger; title: Double vision; title: Scrambled yeggs; title: The vanished crown; title: Bullets; title: Footsteps; title: The poetical policeman; title: The survivor; title: A man called Knott; title: The Edinburgh mystery; title: Triangle at Rhodes; title: The stolen Shakespeare; title: Twelve little nigger boys; title: The riddle of the 5.28; title: The border-line case; title: The poisoned pen; title: The soul of the schoolboy; title: The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; title: The hanging acrobat.