Ellery Queen is a legendary amateur detective and writer of crime novels. Under his name, cousins Frederick Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred Lee (1905-1971) wrote a series of fascinating books, standing on a par with the works of the coryphae of the detective genre A .. Christy, E. C. Gardner, R. Stout and J. D. Karra. Another "Ratsville" case of Ellery . Having taken to understand the circumstances of the disappearance of the "urban drunkard", Queen Jr. does not suspect that he will investigate a chain of mysterious deaths, the visible connections between which are not traced. If you are thinking rationally[edit] ..