The Chinese Orange Mystery: An Ellery Queen Mystery: 0 Paperback – 15 January 2019

My first Ellery Queen since childhood, when I read old copies of the magazine stored in a steamer trunk. Very cleverly put together with colorful characters and interesting interplay between Ellery the amateur detective and his father the policeman.

A very enjoyable read based on the Ellery Queen series of books, some of the views expressed are those of the 1940's and may be offensive. The plot will get your old grey cells working. I found it a enjoyable read

This is vintage Queen with all the lovely twists and turns.

Young Ellery Queen finds himself in a social situation with a family involved in publishing, stamp collection, and the collecting of antique jewelry. Ellery has to figure out which activity is relevant when a soft-spoken little man is murdered in an anteroom.The man’s clothes are all on backwards, and the furniture is turned around backwards. This is just the kind of obfuscation to appeal to Ellery’s obsessive thought processes.His investigation reveals family troubles and scandals, unveils an imposter, and saves a romance. His ruminations are highly secretive, and this drives his father, Inspector Queen, completely crazy. It tried my patience too. The Ellery Queen mysteries tend to have a tortuous drawn-out denouement, in which Ellery takes us though his deductions one by one and finally reveals the murderer.The plot is very clever, and the backwards clues turn out to have a practical purpose after all. I didn’t guess the murderer, but I didn’t try hard either. I just read these books for the fun of it.

An excellent book by a "King" of the detective genre. As usual, an ending with a most surprising suspect. It is a work I have wanted to read for a long time, and was delighted when I saw that it was recently published."Queen" books, especially the early numbers are always a joy to read Recommended!