The Door Between
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When Ellery Queen first meets the award-winning novelist Karen Leith, it is at a party held to celebrate her most recent prize in literature. The next time he hears of her, she is deadâmurdered, so the police suspect, by the daughter of her fiancâÂŽ, the eminent cancer researcher Dr. John MacClure. With no other suspects and only circumstantial evidence at hand, master detective Ellery Queen delves into the reclusive writer's past to uncover the startling method and motive of an intricate crime.
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Ellery Queen is a pseudonym used by two American cousins from BrooklynâDaniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905â1982), and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905â1971)âto write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both the authorsâ name and that of the detective-hero. The cousins also cofounded and directed Ellery Queenâs Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential English crime-fiction magazines of the twentieth century. They were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.
Mark Peckham is an actor and director based in Rhode Island. In addition to working with Trinity Rep, Virginia Stage Co., and many Boston-area theaters, he was the voice of Joseph Smith in the award-winning PBS documentary American Prophet with Gregory Peck.
