Regan's Reviews > The Tragedy of Y

Wonderful addition to a great series. Ellery Queen is totally the best. I figured out who did it fairly early on and then in true Queen fashion I wandered off track thinking it couldn't be. But then it was exactly who I thought it was....just not the reason why I thought it was. Ellery Queen aka Barnaby Ross, takes their readers into the story with a feeling that you are there with Drury Lane, the protagonist. He's a marvelous character and if movies were made of this series I would have cast Peter O'Toole in the lead role before he died.

I enjoyed the first of this series, Tragedy of X -- and have to say this one was even better. I love the vintage or golden age mysteries because they told the story that needed to be told. The sleuths had to solve crimes with their intelligence and wits, not with surveillance cameras, smart phones and computers spewing information with the click of a mouse. The stories weren't written to a word or page count, but to tell the story that needed to be told.