The new adventures of Ellery Queen by Ellery Queen

Author:Ellery Queen [Queen, Ellery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
Publisher: Triangle Books
Published: 1940-08-15T05:00:00+00:00

When Mr. Queen rose he was pale and abstracted. He swept the flash slowly about the floor. A trail of red led to the dead man from across the room. Diagonally opposite a short-barreled revolver. The smell of powder still lay heavily over the room.

“It he—is he—?” whispered Djuna.

Ellery grabbed the boy's arm and hustled him back into the room they had just left. His flashlight illuminated the glass door on whose surface he had scratched. He kicked high, and the glass shivered as the light of day rushed in. Hacking out an aperture large enough to permit passage of his body, he wriggled past the broken glass and found himself on one of the fantastic little balconies overlooking the open inner court of The House of Darkness. A crowd was collecting below, attracted by the crash of falling glass. He made out the dapper figure of Monsieur Duval by the ticket-booth, in agitated conversation with a khaki-clad special officer, one of the regular Joyland police.

“Duval!” he shouted. “Who's come out the the House?”

“Eh?” gulped the little Frenchman.

“Since I went in? Quick, man, don't stand there gaping!”

“Who has come out?” Monsieur Duval licked his lips, staring up with scared black eyes. “But no one has come out, Mr. Queen. . . . What is it that is the matter? Have you—you head—the sun—”

“Good!” yelled Ellery. “Then he's still in this confounded labyrinth. Officer, send in an alarm for the regular county police. See that nobody leaves. Arrest 'em as soon as they try to come out. A man has been murdered up here!”

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