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During a packed Broadway performance, a notorious lawyer is found murdered, his top hat mysteriously missing. Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen teams up with his father, Inspector Richard Queen, to unravel a web of deception and hidden motives. Can they deduce the significance of the missing hat and identify the killer before they strike again?
A collection of twenty-seven mystery stories published in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" in 1975.
At the tail end of the Roaring Twenties, a birthday bash for publishing heir John Sebastian, Jr., perfectly coincides with the twelve days of Christmas. Among the twelve invited guests is Ellery Queen, a newly published mystery writer planning to enjoy every last minute. But when an uninvited Santa Claus shows up on Christmas Eve and then mysteriously goes missing, the party takes a disturbing turn. Threatening clues masked as gifts begin to appear under the tree, and Queen - a novice crime fighter on his first solo case - must try to solve the killer's puzzle before someone gets murdered. After a dead body turns up, Queen is no closer to stopping the killer. If he can’t anticipate the next clue before it shows up, John Sebastian’s birthday will end up his funeral.