Calendar of Crime

Summary

In the merry month of May,Ellery Queen made a trek to Gettysburg to witness an annual celebration—and anannual murder. February found the ingenious Ellery locked in a furious battleof wits with a dead US president. These are but two of the twelve appointmentswith crime that make up Queen’s baffling calendar of conundrums. Each elegantenigma ticks off all the surprise and excitement that have made Queen the deanof American detective fiction.

Stories include “The Inner Circle,” “The President’s HalfDime,” “The Ides of Michael Magoon,” “The Emperor’s Dice,” “The GettysburgBugle,” “The Medical Finger,” “The Fallen Angel,” “The Needle’s Eye,” “TheThree R’s,” “The Dead Cat,” “The Telltale Bottle,” and “The Dauphin’s Doll.”