Egyptian Cross Mystery

The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a small town''s Christmas.

It''s Christmas in Chicago, and Detective Richard Queen is enjoying a busman''s holiday at a conference on gangland violence—but his son, amateur sleuth Ellery, is bored silly. Until, that is, Ellery reads of an unusual killing in rural Arroyo, West Virginia. A schoolmaster has been found beheaded and crucified. Ellery hu...