The King is Dead

Ellery Queen's job is to keep a powerful tycoon from being murdered. The task seems simple. But this time the perfect detective comes face to face with a killer who has contrived the perfect crime. For how could King Bendigo, closely guarded behind steel doors, be shot by his brother Judah, who was being watched by Ellery in another room?

Set within the brutal militaristic regime of a remote island dystopia, The King is Dead is a brilliantly structured locked-room mystery. With political overtones and elements of high technology and forensic investigation, Ellery Queen stretches the crime genre to its limits with characteristic panache.