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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
2/5 at Storygraph for Ellery Queen's "The French Powder Mystery" which is really TWO mysteries: 1. How did Richard Queen rise to his rank when he needed his son to do ALL his thinking for him AND spell out said thinking out loud & 2. how did he resist the urge to murder his insufferably superior son?
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So, wait, they're always like that?? My one and only foray into Ellery Queen is a short story (The Adventure of the Dauphin's Doll from The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries anthology) and I had almost exactly the same thoughts about father and son! But the mystery itself was quite good.