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And on the Eighth Day

Ellery Queen Detective seriesbook 28Next:The Fourth Side of the Triangle(1965) →

It's April 1944 and Ellery Queen has been working for the military making films in Hollywood. Driving through Death Valley on his way home, his car breaks down. Stumbling over a rise in the desert, he encounters an odd man who seems to come from an earlier time, and is welcomed as a sort of prophet. Queen must root out a growing corruption and comes to the realization that evil can invade the most guarded of people's hearts and societies.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 170 pages

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