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The Roman Hat Mystery

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First published
1929
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290

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  1. Foreword

    15:24

  2. Chapter 1 - In Which Are Introduced a Theater-Audience and a Corpse

    17:03

  3. Chapter 2 - In Which One Queen Works and Another Queen Watches

    32:37

  4. Chapter 3 - In Which a "Parson" Comes to Grief

    34:23

  5. Chapter 4 - In Which Many Are Called and Two Are Chosen

    16:30

  6. Chapter 5 - In Which Inspector Quinn Conducts Some Legal Conversations

    45:40

  7. Chapter 6 - In Which the District Attorney Turns Biographer

    21:34

  8. Chapter 7 - The Queens Take Stock

    24:41

  9. Chapter 8 - In Which the Queens Meet Mr. Field's Very Best Friend

    36:44

  10. Chapter 9 - In Which the Mysterious Mr. Michaels Appears

    15:14

  11. Chapter 10 - In Which Mr. Field's Tophats Begin to Assume Proportions

    25:36

  12. Chapter 11 - In Which the Past Casts a Shadow

    27:07

  13. Chapter 12 - In Which the Queens Invade Society

    31:44

  14. Chapter 13 - Queen to Queen

    41:48

  15. Chapter 14 - In Which the Hat Grows

    32:48

  16. Chapter 15 - In Which an Accusation Is Made

    23:42

  17. Chapter 16 - In Which the Queens Go to the Theater

    26:44

  18. Chapter 17 - In Which More Hats Grow

    42:05

  19. Chapter 18 - Stalemate

    18:11

  20. Chapter 19 - In Which Inspector Queen Conducts More Legal Conversations

    24:02

  21. Chapter 20 - In Which Mr. Michaels Writes a Letter

    7:55

  22. Chapter 21 - In Which Inspector Queen Makes a Capture --

    9:29

  23. Chapter 22 - --And Explains

    63:54

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The Roman Hat Mystery, published in 1929, is the novel that introduced Ellery Queen, the amateur detective who would become one of the most popular sleuths of the golden age of crime fiction. A man is found poisoned in a crowded New York theatre during a performance, and the one puzzle that will not resolve is the whereabouts of the dead man's missing top hat. Ellery Queen, working alongside his father, Inspector Richard Queen of the police, treats the case as a pure problem in deduction, laying every clue before the reader before the solution is revealed. It is a classic closed-circle mystery, fair, ingenious, and coolly logical. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete first Ellery Queen novel.

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Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen was the pen name of two American cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who wrote together for more than forty years. Their detective novels and the long-running Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine shaped American crime fiction across the twentieth century.

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First published
1929
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
290
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Mark Nelson