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There Was an Old Woman

The Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1943

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There Was an Old Woman

By: Ellery Queen
Narrated by: Mark Peckham
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Once upon an evil time, there was a wicked old woman with a mammoth shoe company worth many millions of dollars, a henpecked husband, and six miserable children. Then one day death came visiting the vast Potts mansion - and began claiming its inhabitants one by one. It was then that Ellery Queen was invited to sup on this nightmare brew of diabolical murder and baffling mystery - in a case that made the most horrific crimes in his entire career seem like fairy tales. As he endeavors to solve the case, he tries to make sense of this family that defies rationality.

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Very surprised at these books, among the very best mystery books ever conceived but seemingly largely snubbed as the present generation of readers is pre-occupied blowing hot air into windbags of themselves lauding Agatha Christie's "psychology". Yes by all means. Running around the corner and sawing down an oak with a handsaw in summerheat, letting the gigantic tree fall flat on Poirot walking 20 meters behind, who would notice the murderer, right?

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