There Was an Old Woman
β Scribed by Queen, Ellery
- Publisher
- THORNDIKE PR
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 126 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780783884233
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β¦ Synopsis
Product Description
MysteryLarge Print EditionOne of the very best of the Ellery Queen mysteries. New York TimesCornelia Potts is a wicked old witch of a woman with millions of dollars, a henpecked husband, and six miserable children. When, one by one, the inhabitants of the Potts household are visited by death, Cornelia watches with delight. During a visit, Ellery Queen finds himself supervising a duel between Thurlow Potts and his half brother Robert, so he makes sure the guns are loaded with blanks. But when one of the brothers really dies, Ellery realizes hes up against a very cunning murderer.
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