Ellery Queen is a legendary amateur detective and author of crime novels. Under this name, cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee wrote a series of fascinating books that stand alongside the works of such masters of the detective genre as A. Christie, E. S. Gardner, R. Stout, and J. D. Carr. The investigation into the murder of a former singer turns into one of the most tangled cases ever handled by the Quins, father and son, and its ending will be a sad one.