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The Chinese Orange Mystery
The Chinese Orange Mystery | Ellery Queen
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A puzzling publishing murder attracts the eye of Ellery Queen 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 Kirks staff is used to strange characters visiting their boss, so Kirks 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. The rug is backwards; the furniture is backwards; even the dead mans 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.
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Catsandbooks 👍🏼🧡 7mo
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Mehso-so

My mom used to get Ellery Queen magazine and I read it when I was young. So nostalgia and having fave color in title lead me here. About 85% in he tells you you have everything you need to figure out whodunnit. Then Colombo style he brings the suspects together shows them how and why it happened and finally reveals who. Quite a throwback from mysteries today and some language and references were dated somewhere between so-so and pick.

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Chinese Orange Mystery | Ellery Queen
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Panpan

Ridiculous. Maybe I'm grumpy. Maybe it's the spiralling despair caused by the swirling vortex of chaos on the news but I hated this. Not for one second could I invest myself in the stupidly complicated crime or its solution. Its one saving grace was the amusing exchanges between Ellery and his police inspector father