The American Gun Mystery
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When a Western star is gunned down at a rodeo, Ellery Queen saddles up to solve the mystery.
Buck Horne has roped thousands of cattle, slugged his way out of dozens of saloons, and shot plenty of men dead in the street—but always on the backlot. He's a celluloid cowboy, and his career is nearly kaput. The real box office draw is his daughter, Kit, a brawling beauty who can outshoot any rascal the studio has to offer. Desperate for a comeback, Buck joins Wild Bill Grant's traveling rodeo for a show in New York, hoping to land one last movie contract. But he has scarcely mounted his horse when he falls to the dirt. It wasn't age that made him slip—it was the bullet in his heart. Watching from the stands are Ellery Queen, debonair sleuth, and his police detective father. They are New Yorkers through and through, but to solve the rodeo killing, the Queens must learn to talk cowboy.
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Ellery Queen. (2013). The American Gun Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ellery Queen. 2013. The American Gun Mystery. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ellery Queen, The American Gun Mystery. Blackstone Publishing, 2013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ellery Queen. The American Gun Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2013.
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When a Western star is gunned down at a rodeo, Ellery Queen saddles up to solve the mystery.
Buck Horne has roped thousands of cattle, slugged his way out of dozens of saloons, and shot plenty of men dead in the street—but always on the backlot. He's a celluloid cowboy, and his career is nearly kaput. The real box office draw is his daughter, Kit, a brawling beauty who can outshoot any rascal the studio has to offer. Desperate for a comeback, Buck joins Wild Bill Grant's traveling rodeo for a show in New York, hoping to land one last movie contract. But he has scarcely mounted his horse when he falls to the dirt. It wasn't age that made him slip—it was the bullet in his heart. Watching from the stands are Ellery Queen, debonair sleuth, and his police detective father. They are New Yorkers through and through, but to solve the rodeo killing, the Queens must learn to talk cowboy.
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First published in 1933, this so-so fair play whodunit from Queen, the pen name of Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Lee (1905–1971), offers a tantalizing setup. Manhattan amateur sleuth Ellery Queen and his father, NYPD Insp. Richard Queen, are attending a rodeo at a sports arena, along with more than 20,000 others, when the star attraction, movie cowboy Buck Horne, is shot in the side just as he and 40 other riders are shooting their guns into the air. Horne is fatally trampled after toppling from his horse. A firearms expert determines the murder weapon to have been a .25 caliber, but despite everyone in the arena being thoroughly searched by the police, no matching gun is located. Even film footage of the killing doesn’t help, as Ellery explores potential personal and professional reasons for someone to want Horne dead. This entry lacks the clever plotting and more fleshed-out characterizations of later books in the series, and the solution, while it logically explains a seeming impossibility, is a letdown. Not everyone will consider this an American mystery classic.
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Buck Horne has roped thousands of cattle, slugged his way out of dozens of saloons, and shot plenty of men dead in the street—but always on the backlot. He's a celluloid cowboy, and his career is nearly kaput. The real box office draw is his daughter, Kit, a brawling beauty who can outshoot any rascal the studio has to offer. Desperate for a comeback, Buck joins Wild Bill Grant's traveling rodeo for a show in New York, hoping to land one last movie contract. But he has scarcely mounted his horse when he falls to the dirt. It wasn't age that made him slip—it was the bullet in his heart. Watching from the stands are Ellery Queen, debonair sleuth, and his police detective father. They are New Yorkers through and through, but to solve the rodeo killing, the Queens must learn to talk cowboy.
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