A London detective investigates when a troubled Scottish laird takes a fall in this classic British mystery by the author of Hamlet, Revenge!

Three novellas and two short stories starring the ever-ingenious Ellery Queen, who wrestles with a murder at an amateur theater company and other mysteries.

When a murder desecrates the somber, book-lined halls of New York City’s iconic 42nd Street Library, Raymond Ambler, the library’s curator of crime fiction, has a personal interest in solving the crime. 

"Not to be missed.” —Megan Abbott bestselling author of The Turnout

At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the evil presence. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer.

Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his bestseller, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister in a coma. The audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case—unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence are about to be revealed.