About “The King Is Dead”
The King Is Dead is a mystery novel written by American authors Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay, who wrote under the pseudonym Ellery Queen. Published in 1952, the story takes place mainly on a fictional island and also involves a fictional small town called Wrightsville in the northeastern United States. This town appears in several other Ellery Queen stories. The novel follows the conventions of the mystery genre, focusing on a puzzling crime and the process of solving it. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1952