创纪录五获美国推理文学最高殊荣“爱伦坡奖”！
全球销量超过200 000 000册。
史上最经典、最离奇的连环谋杀案

Five ALLEN POE prize winner
Sales volumes soar up to 200 million!
the most classical and weirdest chain murder case in history

猫有九条命，这不只这几条，它还要更多。纽约市连续生勒颈案，凶手随机性的杀人行动引起了社会普遍的恐慌。
唯一能够将这些受害者联系在一起的，
就是他们都是被一根印度产的绳子勒死的。

this book illustrates the willingness of author to take risks by deviating from their highly successful formula, that of the Ellery Queen deductive puzzler. In this story Dannay and Lee focus more on the victims as actual individuals, and not simply as pieces in a puzzle. Each victim is realistically described; these vignettes add a strongemotionaldimensiontothestory.

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.