史上最经典的密室案件，掀起又一轮推理热潮
全球销量超过200 000 000册
埃勒里•奎因就是美国的侦探推理小说

The most classical locked-room mystery work
Sales volumes soar up to 200 million
Ellery Queen is equal to American detective mystery work

旅日美籍女作家死在密室，凶杀现场，只有医生之女和半把剪刀……
警方发现：死者卧房上面的阁楼内暗藏秘密……
不利因素一一浮现，医生之女真的是为了报复而痛下杀手？
消失的另外半把剪刀是破案关键吗？
死者身穿正式和服有何含意？

An American woman writer in Japan dies in an adytum, in the crime scene are only the daughter of the doctor and half of a pair of scissors, the police finds there are secrets hidden in the attic above the bedroom of the deceased, etc. Adverse elements emerge one by one.

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.