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This 1939 book was originally published as The Dragon's Teeth. It's a well-constructed whodunit involving a rich old man and a couple of competing heiresses. It has enough double-crossings, plot twists, and false identities (including a fake Ellery Queen!) to fill several books.

What I like about these early EQ mysteries is that the authors don't hold anything back. The story would have worked just fine without the fake Ellery Queen stuff, for instance, but they threw it in there anyway. Put another way, lesser authors would have saved a plot element or two for the next book. You feel like you're getting your money's worth.

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