A disreputable lawyer is discovered dead by poisoning during the performance of a play in New York City. Not only that, despite being sold out, the body is surrounded by empty seats. Plus his top hat is missing. Inspector Richard Queen of the Homicide Squad is called-in to solve the case, along with his mystery writer son, Ellery. First in the Ellery Queen mystery novel series. - Summary by The Narrator
Chapters
1 Foreword 15 min 2 Chapter 1 - In Which Are Introduced a Theater-Audience and a Corpse 17 min 3 Chapter 2 - In Which One Queen Works and Another Queen Watches 33 min 4 Chapter 3 - In Which a "Parson" Comes to Grief 34 min 5 Chapter 4 - In Which Many Are Called and Two Are Chosen 16 min 6 Chapter 5 - In Which Inspector Quinn Conducts Some Legal Conversations 46 min 7 Chapter 6 - In Which the District Attorney Turns Biographer 22 min 8 Chapter 7 - The Queens Take Stock 25 min 9 Chapter 8 - In Which the Queens Meet Mr. Field's Very Best Friend 37 min 10 Chapter 9 - In Which the Mysterious Mr. Michaels Appears 15 min 11 Chapter 10 - In Which Mr. Field's Tophats Begin to Assume Proportions 26 min 12 Chapter 11 - In Which the Past Casts a Shadow 27 min 13 Chapter 12 - In Which the Queens Invade Society 32 min 14 Chapter 13 - Queen to Queen 42 min 15 Chapter 14 - In Which the Hat Grows 33 min 16 Chapter 15 - In Which an Accusation Is Made 24 min 17 Chapter 16 - In Which the Queens Go to the Theater 27 min 18 Chapter 17 - In Which More Hats Grow 42 min 19 Chapter 18 - Stalemate 18 min 20 Chapter 19 - In Which Inspector Queen Conducts More Legal Conversations 24 min 21 Chapter 20 - In Which Mr. Michaels Writes a Letter 8 min 22 Chapter 21 - In Which Inspector Queen Makes a Capture -- 9 min 23 Chapter 22 - --And Explains 1 h 4 min
