For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve.
Ellery Queen was a master of the short mystery, so closely associated with the form that the longest-running magazine for such tales bears his name; the excellent stories in this volume show why he continues to be considered one of the greatest American practitioners of the Golden Age whodunnit..
And the only thing more dazzling than the mysterious murders he confronts are his brilliant solutions at the end.
In the tales that follow, he tangles with a violent book thief, an assassin of acrobats, and New York\'s only cleanly shaven bearded lady.
Queen\'s adventure on campus is only the first of this incomparable collection of short mysteries.
But when a university professor asks Queen to teach a class, the detective finds there are people whom reason cannot touch: college students.
In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain--and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police inspector.
For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve
