ELLERY QUEEN

THE DOOR BETWEEN

A Problem in Deduction

INTERNATIONAL READERS LEAGUE (©1937)

Condition:  GOOD — no jacket, only minor shelfwear, ’36 written on first flyleaf (the date?  who knows?)

Ellery Queen, the gentleman detective, is a handsome Harvard grad who works as a private eye alongside his father, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD. In The Door Between they face one of their most daunting cases. Karen Leith is dead. An acclaimed novelist turned recluse, she died alone, in a small secluded room of her odd Greenwich Village house. Reportedly tormented by a scandal from decades past, she killed herself. Or did she?   The deeper Ellery Queen delves into her past, the more certain he becomes that she was murdered  in as clever and horrifying a manner as he has ever encountered. Queen's superb powers of deduction are put to the ultimate test in this intricate whodunit

Commentaries on line:

Meanwhile, the plot had a very interesting twist at the end. Also, the revelation of how the death actually happened was also a surprise. I like it when the detective can catch me unexpectedly.

I thought this was one of the good books and I was right. The characters were easy to know and well formed. The story was easy to follow and some surprises towards the end. Then a bit of a twist to finish the story. Excellent. My collection of Ellery Queen books is growing and I am determined to collect all the main novels, I must admit they are becoming harder to find in hardback edition with covers.

I have an old copy of this book--1941 over 71 years old. The pages were so old that when I turned a page, some of it just kinda flaked off.

     But the mystery was very good...I did not know until the end who did the dastardly deed for sure.

     Ellery Queen did a great job of keeping you on your toes!

{Me:  well,  this copy is also old; but its pages aren’t going to flake off on you!}

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