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The Blue Movie Murders Kindle Edition

by Ellery Queen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A killing shocks the erotic film underworld in a mystery featuring Mike McCall, the political troubleshooter introduced in The Campus Murders.

The film is called The Wild Nymph, and it may be the finest pornographic movie ever made. A relic of the 1950s, when erotic cinema was more artistic than smutty, it was filmed on a shoestring budget by the enigmatic genius Sol Dahlman. But 20 years later, the film has been forgotten and Dahlman has become a recluse. Finding him will be a deadly proposition.
 
A Hollywood producer comes to the state capital in search of Dahlman, hoping to capitalize on pornography’s growing mainstream acceptance. He meets Mike McCall, the governor’s top troubleshooter, whose only interest in pornography is in keeping women’s lib protestors from picketing the theaters. When Dahlman is found dead, it falls to McCall to stop the bloodshed. Sex can be controversial, but murder is always taboo.
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''Ellery Queen is the American detective story.'' --Anthony Boucher, author of Nine Times Nine

About the Author

Ellery Queen is a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn-Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (1905-1982), and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (1905-1971)-to write detective fiction. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both the authors' name and that of the detective-hero. The cousins also cofounded and directed Ellery Queen's 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.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B013CUBZM6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (September 29, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 29, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3476 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 201 pages
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Ellery Queen was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee's death in 1971.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tricky mystery
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2018
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A popular director is killed after he had gone looking for a student who directed a blue movie 20 years earlier. The governor sends his investigator to find the killer. There is a plant strike, a women's lib group, a senate investigator, and a whole town out to get in his way. Plus, one of the strikers is out to kill him.
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R. Jones
3.0 out of 5 stars A Queen In Name Only
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2020
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After reading this book I was curious when it was published (1973 as it turns out), so I did a little research and found it wasn't actually written by the team of Dannay and Lee, but by Edward D, Hoch, another prolific mystery writer, under the Queen name. It's not badly written, but it's not anything I'll remember very long either. It moves along quickly and it's short enough to get through in a afternoon, but it suffers from a bad case of not aging well. There's a lot of talk about "women's liberation," "queers," and other things that set it in a very specific time and place, and that modern readers may find annoying or even offensive. The plot itself is fine, although the idea of "blue movies" (what we call porn these days) being controversial is a bit dated in itself. The main character, a special investigator for the Governor, is pretty standard issue, and the reveal of the solution at the end is satisfying, but it's only second-rate Queen at best.
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Carleen R. Ellis
5.0 out of 5 stars Ellery forever
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2021
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Right up there with his reputation. Nice to be able to read without bad language curtailing enjoyment of the story line.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2017
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As all prior Ellery Queen books I have read, keeps you interested throughout.
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Claudia A. Reynolds
5.0 out of 5 stars Glad to have it
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2016
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Ghosted by Edward D. Hoch. Enjoyable. Glad to have it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Wild Search for Sal
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2020
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A Hollywood producer wants to find a director that directed over 20 years ago. The problem is no one knows where the man is
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