Cop Out - by Ellery Queen (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A pacy hardboiled noir novel - featuring two bonus short stories - from one of the most popular mystery writers of all time.

Pulling off the payroll robbery was the easy part for Furia and his two accomplices, even if it did cost one man his life. The hard part? Getting away with it, with all the town's cops on the criminals' trail. But Furia's girl has a scheme in mind, to force one of the cops to help them - by kidnapping his young daughter.

Wes Malone is the cop caught in a desperate bind: help the killers escape with a satchel full of cash, or try to stop them and risk his daughter's life.

About the Author

One of the most famous and best-selling mystery writers of all time, "ELLERY QUEEN" was the creation of two cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who together wrote dozens of novels and short story collections widely considered among the most accomplished in the crime genre, with more than 100,000,000 copies in print. Ellery Queen also inspired radio and TV series, movies, comic books, board games, and the eponymous Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, which has been published continuously since 1941. Ellery Queen was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America (the organization's highest honor) in 1961. In the words of critic Anthony Boucher, "Ellery Queen is the American detective story."