The Roman Hat Mystery [SEP] series
The Roman Hat Mystery
The Roman Hat Mystery is a novel that was written in 1929 by Ellery Queen. It is the first of the Ellery Queen mysteries.
Plot summary.
The novel deals with the poisoning of a disreputable lawyer named Monte Field in the Roman Theater in New York City during a performance of a play called "Gunplay!" Although the play is a sold-out hit, the corpse is discovered seated surrounded by empty seats. A number of suspects whose pasts had made them potentially susceptible to
Tales of Horror and Suspense", co-edited with Lisa Morton, came out in January 2019. In October 2018, Pegasus Books published the first of a new series of American crime writing edited by Klinger. The first volume, "Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s", includes "House Without a Key" (the first Charlie Chan novel by Earl Derr Biggers), "Red Harvest" (the first novel-length Continental Op mystery by Dashiell Hammett), "The Roman Hat Mystery" (the