Among these clever crimes - each based on an important day of the year - are a grisly "accident" on the New Year's Eve ... the happy but very short life of a June bride ...

A Halloween party which starts with a game of murder and ends with a genuine corpse ... and a Christmas chiller in which Ellery matches wits with a spectacular jewel thief in a mystery of dolls, danger and deception!

• The Inner Circle
• The Presidents Half Disme
• The Ides of Michael Magoon
• The Emperor's Dice
• The Gettysburg Bugle
• The Medical Finger
• The Fallen Angel
• The Needle's Eye
• The Three R's
• The Dead Cat
• The Telltale Bottle
• The Dauphin's Doll