The Egyptian Cross Mystery

One of the great Golden Age detectives is back in a mystery that “pioneered a style which countless writers would follow in the decades to come” ( American Culture ).   It’s Christmas in Chicago, and Inspector Richard Queen is enjoying a busman’s holiday at a conference on gangland violence—but his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, isbored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia: A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified. Ellery hustles