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French Department Store is holding a furniture exhibition. The instructor pressed the button and a bed slowly lowered from the wall. To everyone's surprise, a female corpse rolled out of the bed and fell to the ground! And the identity of this corpse turned out to be the proprietress of French Department Store! At the same time, the daughter of the boss's wife, who is the biggest suspect, also disappeared. Who knows the murderer? How did the murderer get through the department store's strict surveillance system and kill the proprietress? Why would he put the body in the new furniture?

The work consists of "The Mystery of the Greek Coffin", "The Mystery of the French Powder", "The Mystery of the Chinese Orange", "The Mystery of the Siamese Siamese Man", "The Mystery of the Roman Hat", "The Mystery of the Dutch Shoes", "The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl", and "The Mystery of the Egyptian Cross".

Ellery and his father's best friend, Judge Maclean, went to a beach house near Spanish Cape for vacation. What awaited them was a woman with her hands and feet tied, injured and fainting. Lothar, the daughter of the owner of the headland, was kidnapped, and her uncle was even taken away to the sea, where he ended up unknown. The unbelievable thing was still to come. When Ellery rushed to Godfrey's house, the murder had already occurred. A naked John Marco died on the terrace, with a shawl strangely wrapped around his body...

At the collector's funeral, the will disappeared. The police immediately sealed off the scene and searched every corner, but found nothing. Detective Ellery Queen intervenes in the case and points out that there is only one part of the scene that has not yet been searched - the inside of a newly buried Greek coffin! The cemetery was dug up and the coffin was taken out. Instead of a will, there was an extra corpse in the coffin. The body was unidentified and covered in body spots. It was obvious that he had been murdered! Who is the other body? Why did he suddenly appear in the coffin? Where does the missing will go? Suspicions abounded for a while, but Quinn didn't know yet that the murderer had already arranged everything. It was just waiting for the detective to use his proud logical reasoning to take the initiative to go down the completely wrong path step by step...

The famous Western star Buck Horn plans to return to the screen, but he doesn't want to be shot dead while performing horse stunts in the oval arena. The New York City Police Department mobilized its entire force and conducted an unprecedented search, but to no avail. A month later, at the same place, in the same scene, the God of Death repeated his tricks again, replicating another murder. The two murder cases were the same, but they were also shrouded in mystery: under the watchful eyes of 20,000 spectators, the police were unable to find the murder weapon, the murderer, or the motive.

A selection of Ellery Quinn's detective novels "The Name of the Country Series" (8 volumes in total), including: The Roman Hat Mystery, the French Powder Mystery, the Dutch Shoe Mystery, the Egyptian Cross Mystery, the American Gun Mystery, the Siamese Siamese Man Mystery, the Chinese Orange Mystery, and the Spanish Shawl Mystery. Magical criminal techniques and a coherent reasoning process fully demonstrate the beauty of logic!

The more you dig into the 11 mysterious cases, the more bizarre they become, hiding the perfect methods of committing crimes! A collection of Ellery Quinn's godlike short stories, the complete simplified and Chinese version published for the first time. Reader suspense library. Mystery 1: "The Mystery of the Seven Black Cats" The paralyzed old woman hated cats so much, why did she buy six identical black cats in succession? Mystery 2: "The Mystery of the African Tourist" The African tourist's body was found in the hotel. Four answers can be derived based only on the traces on the scene? Mystery 3: "The Mystery of the Crazy Tea Party" The "Hatter" disappeared mysteriously, and the strange details actually corresponded to the plot of the novel one by one? Mystery 4: "The Mystery of the Glass Dome Clock" The antique shop owner died suddenly at midnight. Why did he insist on breaking the glass dome clock before he died? Mystery 5: "The Mystery of the Bearded Woman" The woman in the painting has a beard. Is it a trick of the real murderer or a hint from the deceased? ...