1. 一场欲罢不能的推理盛宴即将拉开帷幕！
2. 全球销量超过200 000 000册
3. 历史上最伟大的侦探推理小说家！

Five ALLEN POE prize winner
Sales volumes soar up to 200 million!
Masterpiece of Ellery Queen “Father of American reasoning novel”

一个男人躺在荒郊小屋的血泊中，他有两个名字、两种职业、两个家庭、两个妻子、一份价值百万的保险单……到底是因妒成恨的情杀，还是多年积怨的仇杀，或是图财不成的劫杀？留给众人的只有六根使用过的火柴棒……史上最拍案叫绝、最让人称赞的推理大师，陪你展开一场不可思议的推理过程。

Inside a run-down shack,a man lies dying in a cheap, blood-spattered suit, stabbed through the heart by an assailant he describes with his last breath as a mysterious veiled woman. So begins master detective Ellery Queen's strangest case ever. One man, but two identities, each married secretly to a different wife - and in his other life, as New York millionaire Joseph Kent Gimball, he has just changed the beneficiary of a million-dollar life insurance policy. With painstaking brilliance Ellery Queen sifts through a plethora of clues to solve the riddle of the Halfway House murder, beginning with the most important question of all: Whom did the murderer think she was killing, impoverished Wilson or millionaire Gimball? And why?

埃勒里•奎因（ELLERY QUEEN），是曼弗雷德•本宁顿•李（Manfred•Bennington•Lee，1905-1971）和弗雷德里克•丹奈（Frederic•Dannay，1905-1982）这对表兄弟合作的笔名。
他们开创了美国侦探推理小说的黄金时代，曾先后五次获得美国推理小说的最高奖项“埃德加•爱伦•坡奖”，在历次“历史上最伟大的10位侦探推理小说家”的评选活动中，均榜上有名。
从1929年到1971 年，埃勒里•奎因发表了数十部推理小说，最为有名、最具代表性的是“国名系列”。奎因和他们的“国名系列”小说早已成了推理小说史上一个不可逾越的高峰。其中于1942年创作的《凶镇》标志着其创作风格的成功转型、其作品全球累计销量超过2亿册。

Ellery Queen is a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn -- Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905-1982), and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905-1971) -- to write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both the authors' name and that of the detective-hero. The cousins also cofounded and directed Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential English crime-fiction magazines of the twentieth century. They were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.