02870cam a2200385 4500 468428245 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 210308s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781453229262 1453229264 B005TUN21A Amazon d54c97bc-327d-4a23-866f-afeb88457a6e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 655449 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Queen, Ellery, (pseudonym.) Calamity Town [Libby eBook]. MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2209kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Fiction. mystery. ebook. HTML:<p><b>In post-Depression America, an amateur sleuth uncovers a small town's dark side in "the best mystery produced by Ellery Queen" (<i>The New York Times</i>).</b><br /></p> <p>At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death.</p> <p>The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the town's first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years ago and never recovered. Another is engaged to the city's rising political star, an upright man who's already boring her. And then there's Lola, the divorced, bohemian black sheep. Together, they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville, Queen sits back—waiting for the crime to come to him.</p>. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2363-1/D54/C97/BC/CalamityTown9781453229262.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=D54C97BC-327D-4A23-866F-AFEB88457A6E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2363-1/D54/C97/BC/CalamityTown9781453229262.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=D54C97BC-327D-4A23-866F-AFEB88457A6E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2363-1/D54/C97/BC/CalamityTown9781453229262.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=D54C97BC-327D-4A23-866F-AFEB88457A6E&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)