Cat Of Many Tails

QUEEN ELLERY

Publication: Little, Brown and Company, 1949, Boston

First edition. Review copy with the slip laid-in. Fine, bright copy in a bright dust jacket with trivial wear to head of spine. Edward Hoch says "... he (Queen) is called upon to discover the identity of a Ripper-like strangler who is killing people, apparently at random, on the streets of New York. It is Queen's longest postwar novel and his richest. The portrait of New York in the grip of near hysteria has never been bettered, and the hunt for a killer known only as the Cat is intriguing all the way. The motive, and thus the pattern the killings follow, is one of the cleverest in mystery fiction, and the apparent capture of the Cat, using a young woman decoy, is perhaps the most suspenseful scene in any Queen novel," An exceptional copy of an elusive title.

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