Double, Double

Ellery Queen is back in Wrightsville — the town that his thousands of admirers will remember as the scene of many of the brilliant detective’s most striking triumphs, including CALAMITY TOWN and TEN DAYS’ WONDER.

Ellery has never had a more bewitching client than Miss Rima Anderson, who recalls him to Wrightsville. A series of newspaper clippings, sent anonymously, have half-prepared him for Rima’s visit, but upon his arrival for on-the-spot investigation, he comes up against the most puzzling set of clues in his career: a heart attack, a suicide, a disappearance over a cliff, all quite natural — — but whoever sent the clippings might have thought otherwise.

Ellery Queen has never been sharper and Wrightsville has never been as productive of such interesting characters as those found in this unusual novel. As a final fillip, the authors have again cast reasonable doubt on the continuation of Ellery Queen’s prized bachelorhood.