The Roman Hat Mystery (Paperback)

from ParadisePorch

#1 Ellery Queen - how exciting to find these vintage mysteries on Scribd. It's brilliant, of course, but Ellery's character is just developing.

from bcquinnsmom

first in the Inspector Queen series of mysteries featuring Inspector Richard Queen and his bookwormish geeky son Ellery, the Roman Hat mystery was set in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Very much the classical-style whodunit, complete with a list of suspects, lists of motives and a final showdown,...

from Jiraiya

I enjoyed this book very well. I hadn't read an Ellery Queen book for 15 years and it took me a full month to read this particular beauty. The mystery is engrossing. In the preface the authors whet your appetite by telling you that the criminal has a remarkable mind. That's kind of a tall order t...

from antiquary

The two things I remember about this mystery are that it is set in a theater --one of my favorite mystery settings --and the victim dies by a particularly horrible form of poisoning.

from Dreesie

Listened on Hoopla. Top hats, so many top hats. This mystery was fine, and I guessed where it was going based on a line of inquiry that was not mentioned in the investigation. Then, at the end, it was pulled out of a hat (ba-dum-tssss) as a key point. Not gory or violent, but very very 1929. Espe...