Ellery Queen, New York crime-solving genius, is adrift in Tinseltown. He's under contract as a screenwriter, yet is uncomfortable amidst the magnificent gaudiness. In a town where agents regularly commit egregious sins of vulgarity, Ellery is out of his element. then a series of fatal finales brings him back to reality. In these collected mysteries, Ellery Queen learns that the nature of evil is identical, if differently garbed, on the West Coast.

I met half of Ellery Queen when I was a child andhe spoke at Bowling Gren State University. I was the only one who asked a question --"How do you handle the collaboration?" He described how other authors did it but not himself.