Barnaby Ross [Ellery Queen]
The Tragedy of Z: A Drury Lane Mystery
London, Cassell and Company, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first UK edition of this thrilling Ellery Queen mystery novel, published under the pseudonym Barnaby Ross. The scarce first UK edition, first impression, published in the same year as the true first edition published by Viking.This is the third novel in Queen's 'Drury Lane Mystery' series, published under the pseudonym Barnaby Ross.Ellery Queen was a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee. Ellery Queen was also the name of their main fictional detective, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murder cases. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip significantly age toned, and boards age toned to perimeters. Light spotting to rear board, with small tide mark to centre of front board. Tail of front joint starting, with board firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot or light handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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