The Madman Theory Author:Ellery Queen MADMAN OR MURDERER? That was the question and it was Police Inspector Omar Collins who had to come up with the answer. All he had to go on was: the victim - Earl Genneman, wealthy president of Genneman Labs; the scene - right in the middle of a busy state park; the murder weapon - a shotgun that was still missing; the witnesses - Myron Retwig, R... more »ed Kirshaw, Bob Vega, and Buck James, all friends or employees of the deceased; the motive - unknown; the suspects - everyone! Then he got a lukewarm tip from a real cool corpse, and a few clues started to click into place. But it wasn't till the third body turned up that the inspector was sure he was on the killer's trail. And by then, Collins knew he had very little time left to stop this madman from murdering again!« less
This mystery novel by Ellery Queen does feature the fictional detective Ellery Queen. It is a police procedural in which Inspector Omar Collins unravels a seemingly random murder of a camper.