The King Is Dead
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Armed men invade the Queen apartment, led by Abel Bendigo, brother of one of the worldβs most powerful men. King Bendigo of Bodigen Arms is an industrial monster whose tentacles embrace the planet. Someone is threatening to kill the King, and Ellery must take on the task of saving his hated life. Virtual prisoners, Ellery and his father are whisked away to an island βsomewhere in the Atlantic.β In a frightening atmosphere of industrial slavery and brute militarism, Ellery comes to grips with a baffling murderer who calmly announces the exact moment of the assassination. The trouble is, Ellery is with the confessed murderer at the time of the crimeβso how could he have possibly done it?
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Ellery Queen is a pseudonym used by two American cousins from BrooklynβDaniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905β1982), and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905β1971)βto write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both the authorsβ name and that of the detective-hero. The cousins also cofounded and directed Ellery Queenβs 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.
