The French Powder Mystery
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French's department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele. But no one there could be proud of its latest exclusive window display: the bloodstained corpse of the owner's wife. Ellery Queen and his father, Inspector Richard Queen, soon discover that this palace of commerce is a viper's nest of fear, jealousy, suspicion, and hatred, where love is cheap and the price of honor marked down. But worst of all is the mysterious mocking mastermind who is out to turn the glittering store into a bargain basement of murder.
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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.
Robert Fass is the two-time winner of the prestigious Audie Award, numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, and a veteran actor who has narrated over two hundred audiobooks. He has worked on projects from authors such as Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, T.S. Eliot, Joyce Carol Oates, Carlos Fuentes, Jeffrey Deaver, and Lee Child, as well as bestselling and prize-winning nonfiction works in history, politics, health, journalism, philosophy, business, and memoir.
