THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN
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A Queen-ly accounting of family murders as Ellery noseleads his father, once again, through a triply-solved case. Matriarch of a shoe fortune obstacles the investigating of two of her children's deaths, dies protecting her unbalanced offspring, while Ellery, untangling the fantastic angles of the family and its obsessions, is forced to stop a wedding to detail the truth. Good all around mixup.