Throughout the novel they are looking for a hat that is supposed to be important in solving the murder.
The resolution of the case is quite good. The deductive method used by the protagonists is not bad and is intended to be similar to that of Sherlock Holmes, who, on the other hand, is mentioned on quite a few occasions. Inspector Richard Queen and his son, Ellery, a detective writer, must unravel the murder of lawyer Monte Field. This is my first reading of Ellery Queen. La trama es buena, pero le falta tensión narrativa.
Hacen interrogatorios, buscan el sombrero y reconstruyen la escena del asesinato a través de los personajes secundarios que intervienen. Durante toda la novela están buscando un sombrero que se supone que debe ser importante para la resolución del asesinato. La resolución del caso es bastante buena. Several of the later "Ellery Queen" books were written by other authors, including Jack Vance, Avram Davidson, and Theodore Sturgeon.Įs la primera lectura que hago de Ellery Queen.Įl inspector Richard Queen y su hijo, Ellery, escritor de novelas de detectives, deben desentrañar el asesinato del abogado Monte Field.Įl método deductivo que usan los protagonistas no está mal y quiere ser similar al de Sherlock Holmes, que, por otra parte, es nombrado en bastantes ocasiones.
Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee's death. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Their character was an amateur detective who used his spare time to assist his police inspector father in solving baffling crimes. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery.Īlthough eventually famous on television and radio, Queen's first appearance came in 1928 when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book that would eventually be published as The Roman Hat Mystery. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. "Ellery Queen" was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B.
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