Ellery Queen's Eyewitnesses

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Its well known that in real life the testimony of most eyewitnesses, even unprejudiced onesf is not dependable. Are eyewitness-reoders of crime fiction any more dependable than those in real life? Take the advice of Ellery Queen-keep your senses keen, note the observable facts, and follow through on every clue in these 18 intriguing mystifiers. About ELLERY QUEEN Ellery Queen has sold, in various editions published by approximately 100 publishers around the world, a foral of more than 150,000,000 copies. Queen books have been translated into every major foreign language except Chinese. Ellery Queen popularized the mystery drama on radio in a program called The Adventures of Ellery Queen, which was on the air for nine years; and in 1950 TV Guide gave the Ellery Queen TV program its national award for the best mystery show on television. In 1975-1976 the most re(Conrinued on bach flap)
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Its well known that in real life the testimony of most eyewitnesses, even unprejudiced onesf is not dependable. Are eyewitness-reoders of crime fiction any more dependable than those in real life? Take the advice of Ellery Queen-keep your senses keen, note the observable facts, and follow through on every clue in these 18 intriguing mystifiers. About ELLERY QUEEN Ellery Queen has sold, in various editions published by approximately 100 publishers around the world, a foral of more than 150,000,000 copies. Queen books have been translated into every major foreign language except Chinese. Ellery Queen popularized the mystery drama on radio in a program called The Adventures of Ellery Queen, which was on the air for nine years; and in 1950 TV Guide gave the Ellery Queen TV program its national award for the best mystery show on television. In 1975-1976 the most re(Conrinued on bach flap)
(Continued from front flop) cent TV program starred Jim Hutton as Ellery, and David Wayne as Inspector Queen. Ellery Queen has won five Edgars (the annual Mystery Writers of America awards similar to the Oscars of Hollywood), including the prestigious Grand Master award (1960); three MWA Scrolls and one Raven; and twice Queen was runner-up for the Best Novel of the Year award. He also has won both the gold and silver Gertrudes awarded by Pocket Books, Inc. Mystery Writers of Japan gave Ellery Queen their gold-and-onyx Edgar Allan Poe ring, awarded to only five non-Japanese detective-story writers throughout the world. In 1968 lona College honored Queen with its Columba Prize in Mystery. In 197Ô And On the Eighth Day won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policiere, and in 1979 the first Ellery Queen novel, The Roman Hot Mystery celebrated its 50th Anniversary in print. Ellery Queens most recent successes are A Fine and Private Place and The Last Woman in His Life. He is internationally known as an editor-Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine is now in its 43rd year of continuous publication. The late Anthony Boucher, distinguished critic and novelist, described Queen best when he wrote: "Ellery Queen is the American detective story " Vissza