Find Your Next Favorite Book  Dig that crazy Greek Coffin  first
review 4out of 5  by xx11 on January 3, 2008  In the thousands
of endlessly boring and routine detective stories, particularly
those dreadful "procedurals", where the reader is told
everything except for why they're wasting their time , this
early Ellery Queen is an unorthodox delight, with a bizarre plot
and weird characters. A man is beheaded and crucified at a god-
forsaken hamlet in West Virginia and a few months later a
similar incident occurs in New York with an insane cult leader
as the only visible connection. Investigation reveals that the
murders are a result of a 20 year old Balkan feud and although
Ellery Queen is able to predict the next victim, he is helpless
to prevent the final murder. The murderer has finally revealed
himself in this last murder and a mad chase across the Midwest
ends with his capture. In these early Queen books there is a
challenge to the reader where the reader is told that they now
have all the clues and infor