The Dutch Shoe Mystery [SEP] series
The Dutch Shoe Mystery
The Dutch Shoe Mystery is a novel which was written in 1931 by Ellery Queen. It is the third of the Ellery Queen mysteries.
Plot summary.
An eccentric millionairess is lying in a diabetic coma on a hospital bed in an anteroom of the surgical suite of the Dutch Memorial Hospital, which she founded, awaiting the removal of her gall bladder. When the surgery is about to begin, the patient is found to have been strangled with picture wire. Although the hospital is crowded,
took their novel to other publishers, and "The Roman Hat Mystery" was published in 1929. According to H. R. F. Keating, "Later the cousins took a sharper view of the Philo Vance character, Manfred Lee calling him, with typical vehemence, 'the biggest prig that ever came down the pike'."
"The Roman Hat Mystery" established a reliable template: a geographic formula title ("The Dutch Shoe Mystery", "The Egyptian Cross Mystery", etc.); an unusual crime