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Tim Corrigan

Why So Dead?

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Ποιος είχε συμφέρον να δολοφονήσει το σουλτάνο της Μοροτζάκα; Και γιατί διάλεξε τη Νέα Υόρκη για να διαπράξει αυτόν τον φόνο; Και ποιο ήταν το ελατήριο του φόνου; Τα πλούτη του σουλτάνου; Το περίφημο ρουμπίνι του, που "έκανε φτερά" μετά το φόνο, ή η ματαίωση κάποιων συμφωνιών που είχαν συναφθεί μεταξύ των κυβερνήσεων της Μοροτζάκα και των ΗΠΑ;Ο κάπτεν Τιμ Κόριγκαν, της αστυνομίας της Νέας Υόρκης, που έτυχε να παρευρίσκεται στο πάρτι του σουλτάνου όταν ο δολοφόνος χτύπησε, προσπάθησε να βάλει σε μια σειρά τα γεγονότα.Στην αρχή, όμως, δεν μπορούσε να βρει τις απαντήσεις που τον ενδιέφεραν. Χρειάστηκε να χτυπήσει και πάλι ο θάνατος, για να μπορέσει να βρει την άκρη ο Κόριγκαν και να αρχίσει να ξεσκεπάζει όσους κρύβονταν στο σκοτάδι...Σύμφωνα με την ιστοσελίδα www.elleryqueen.us, το μυθιστόρημα "Why so Dead?" που κυκλοφόρησε στην Αμερική το 1966, δεν γράφτηκε από τα ξαδέλφια-συγγραφείς Frederic Dannay και Manfred Lee, που κρύβονται πίσω από το ψευδώνυμο Ellery Queen, αλλά από τον Richard Deming, συγγραφέα και άλλων βιβλίων με πρωταγωνιστή τον Tim Corrigan.

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First published January 1, 1966

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Ellery Queen

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aka Barnaby Ross.
(Pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)
"Ellery Queen" was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. 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.

Although 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. Their character was an amateur detective who used his spare time to assist his police inspector father in solving baffling crimes. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee's death.

Several of the later "Ellery Queen" books were written by other authors, including Jack Vance, Avram Davidson, and Theodore Sturgeon.



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February 5, 2016
Another good novel by Queen. Love these novels. Fun to try and figure out what everyone is really doing.
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December 1, 2018
As usual in Corrigan stories a fair intrigue and murder mystery.
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April 13, 2016
Always good to read a classic mystery. I don't think I've read any Ellery Queen before. This was published in 1966, so a few references were dated (lack of cell phones and computers, a few phrases) - but overall it stood the test of time as a classic mystery.
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