Ellery Queen #4

In "The Case of the Seventh Raven," investigator Emmet Blake finds himself drawn into a murder mystery during a quiet vacation, where a dead man and a raven with bloody feet point to a puzzle far from ordinary. As the clues pile up, Emmet must untangle the truth while a quiet tension simmers between him and Sally, whose patience for his aloofness is wearing thin.

Linda Haynes, a two-time golf champion, celebrates her latest tournament victory with champagne in the locker room—only to collapse moments later, poisoned. When Ellery Queen is called in to investigate the death at the country club, suspicion immediately falls on Vivian Marshall, a rival golfer who has openly despised the champion. But Ellery suspects the case is far more complicated than a simple crime of passion, and he devises an elaborate trap to expose the real killer's identity. A clever mystery that proves even a stroke of good luck can hide a darker truth.

When Betty Jones visits her sister Mary, a famous model, she makes a grim discovery—Mary has been brutally murdered in her apartment. As Philadelphia police methodically piece together evidence from a mysterious man in pince-nez glasses who visited the building that morning, the investigation widens to include hotel clerks, cab drivers, and two young women who had recently met a charming stranger claiming to be a salesman. With each clue—a man's shirt, a Chicago timetable, scratched hands, and a hastily abandoned hotel room—the dragnet of justice closes in on the killer's identity.

What starts as a simple drive home from the Berkshire Hills turns into a nightmare for Ellery Queen and his assistant Nikki Porter when a washed-out road and a fierce storm force them to seek shelter in a forbidding mansion at the edge of Walpurgis Hollow. Once inside, they're confronted with cryptic warnings of death and dark hints of a werewolf loose in the house—and the residents seem to know far more than they're saying about a murder that occurred nearby. As the night deepens, Ellery must untangle truth from legend before whatever hunts in the darkness strikes again.