Ellery Queen's bad scenes

de Eleanor Sullivan

Edited by Eleanor Sullivan "Bad scene" is American slang for an unpleasant experience, and that is precisely what befalls the characters in these twenty-five stories gathered by one of the most widely acclaimed editors in the mystery-suspense genre, from the pages of its longest standing magazine. CONTENTS Introduction - Eleanor Sullivan The Question - Stanley Ellin The Old Barn on the Pond - Ursula Curtiss Her Heart's Home - Mary McMullen The Phonograph Murder - Helen Reilly Testimony of a Witness - McGarry Morley The Night Calhoun Was Off Duty - Thomas Walsh The Missing Mortgagee - R. Austin Freeman The Beauty in That House - Florence V. Mayberry Man in Hiding - Vincent Starrett Mrs. Kendall's Trunk - Robert Twohy Franz Kafka, Detective: The Bird of Ill Omen - Charles West, Jr. Falling Object - William Brittain The Mysterious Death in Percy Street - Baroness Orczy The Good Times Always End - David Morrell The Men in Black Raincoats - Pete Hamill Monday Is a Quiet Place - Marjorie Carleton The Shop that Exchanged Evils - Lord Dunsany The Bag Man - Brooke Weld The Neighbors - John Galsworthy A Question of Neighborliness - David Ely Who's the Blonde? - John D. MacDonald In a Country Churchyard - Robert L. Fish Déjà Vu - Mary Barrett Fishing Can Be Fatal - Stephen Wasylyk Rear Window - Cornell Woolrich