Dead ManтАЩs Tale
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When Barney Street, the fixer, was in Holland in World War II, his life had been saved by a German soldier.
Now Barney is dead and his two million dollar estate is left entirely to the soldier who saved him, Milo Hacha. But that fortune comes with a death sentence, for Barney's widow, Estelle, won't rest until she gets back everything that is rightfully hers.
She sends Steve Longacre, once one of Barney's boys, to Europe to find Hacha, trailing him from Holland to Switzerland, to Vienna, and finally to Prague. Longacre has Hacha on the run, fleeing love, money, and a velvet-lined coffin ...
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Ellery Queen is a pseudonym used by two American cousins from BrooklynтАФDaniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905тАУ1982), and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905тАУ1971)тАФto write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both the authorsтАЩ name and that of the detective-hero. The cousins also cofounded and directed Ellery QueenтАЩs Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential English crime-fiction magazines of the twentieth century. They were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.
Mark Peckham is an actor and director based in Rhode Island. In addition to working with Trinity Rep, Virginia Stage Co., and many Boston-area theaters, he was the voice of Joseph Smith in the award-winning PBS documentary American Prophet with Gregory Peck.
