The Copper Frame / A Room to Die In Author:Ellery Queen The Copper Frame — This was cold-blooded murder! The syndicate, led by gangster Larry Cutter, is trying to take over Iroquois. They want the town, mayor, and police chief in their pocket. So they kill Andy Saxon and one of his top men. Then they move into clean up. But they hadn't reckoned on the chief's son, Lieutenant Ted Saxo... more »n. And to stop him they will have to frame him with his own father's murder. Suspended from the force, facing trial, the whole town against him, how could Ted hope to beat Cutter's hands?
A Room to Die In
How could a man have been murdered when he was found alone in his study, a gun in his hand, and the door locked from the inside? It had to be suicide, the police figured. Although there was no suicide note, there was a letter proving conclusively that Roland Nelson, over the last several months, was being blackmailed. But to his daughter, Ann, whom he had seen only spasmodically since he had left her mother when Ann was a baby, there were unanswered questions. She was convinced that her father could never have killed himself. Before she found the answers, two people were brutally garroted with a wire, one of them in her own apartment. Could she find all the answers before the killer silenced her, too?« less