Calamity Town -- Ellery Queen

<b>Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town <p/></b>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. The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie fa軋de. 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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Ellery Queen<br><b>Publisher:</b> Open Road Integrated Media LLC<br><b>Published:</b> 07/31/2012<br><b>Pages:</b> 286<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.82lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781453236765<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Ellery Queen was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the