Calamity Town by Queen, Ellery - 1945

New York: Pocket Books, 1945. Edge and corner wear, scuffed and scratched, spine is lightly creased as well as the lower corners of the front and rear covers, overall a clean well-preserved used first Pocket Books edition! 245 unmarked and uncreased, suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! "It all starts when Ellery Queen goes to a small town, disguised as Ellery Smith, to write a novel. He moves into a little house originally built for Nora Wright, whose fiance, Jim Haight, had left town on the ee of the wedding three years before. Then Jim comes back, and things begin to happen. There are the three post-dated letters, for instance, and the attepted arsenic poisonings, which convince Ellery that someone is going to be murdered ---- but who?". First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.