Half-way house
a novel in five parts
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Word Count
79,750 words, Guess
Page Count
319 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100575014563
- ISBN-139780575014565
- Goodreads6540087
- OCLC Control Number5926098
- Better World Books9780575014565
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL15068399M
Classifications
- DDC823/.9/1F
- LCCPZ3.Q295 Hal
- LCCPS3533.U4 Hal
Description
Joe Wilson was a poor, itinerant salesman with a pretty young wife in Philadelphia. Joseph Kent Gimball was a wealthy, socially prominent New Yorker with an elegant and aristocratic wife. These two very different men were actually the same man, a bigamist leading a bizarre double life. His deception was revealed to the world after he was murdered in his "halfway house," a riverfront shack outside Trenton, New Jersey, that he used as a hideout to switch identities. But who killed him? Ellery Queen, who is drawn into the case to help old friends, puts his finger on the central question: "Who was murdered -- Joe or Joseph?" Queen performs an extended feat of logical deduction from seemingly insignificant clues, such as a number of burnt matches, and finally develops a profile of the killer that can fit only one person in the case.
Subjects
Series Statement
- The complete crime novels of Ellery Queen; vol.10
Other Editions
- Half-way house: a novel in five parts
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