The Chinese Orange Mystery

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781453289433

<DIV><b>A puzzling publishing murder attracts the eye of Ellery Queen</b></div><DIV></div><p></p><DIV>Mandarin Press is a premier publishing house for foreign literature, but to those at the top of this enterprise, there is little more beautiful than a rare stamp. As Donald Kirk, publisher and philatelist, prepares his office for a banquet, an unfamiliar man comes to call. No one recognizes him, but Kirk&rsquo;s staff is used to strange characters visiting their boss, so Kirk&rsquo;s secretary asks him to wait in the anteroom. Within an hour, the mysterious visitor is dead on the floor, head bashed in with a fireplace poker, and everything in the anteroom has been quite literally turned upside down.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>The rug is backwards; the furniture is backwards; even the dead man&rsquo;s clothes have been put on front-to-back. As debonair detective Ellery Queen pries into the secrets of Mandarin Press, every clue he finds is topsy-turvy. The great sleuth must tread lightly, for walking backwards is a surefire way to step off a cliff.</div><DIV></div><p></p>