CHALLENGE TO THE READER, Ellery Queen anthology

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1940. Hardcover in cloth, no jacket. 1st edition thus. The first reprint of the first crime-fiction anthology edited by Ellery Queen (cousins Manny Lee and Fred Dannay), originally published in 1938 by Stokes. Includes 25 classic detective stories featuring great sleuths whose real names are changed—and revealed only at story’s end—so that readers are forced to guess which famous fictional detective is at work. Condition: About Fine. Extremely sharp copy of a must-have collection for mystery devotees.

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