<p>Looking for trouble Ellery Queen descends on a small town.</p><p>At the tail end of the long summer of 1940 there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville but Ellery Queen has come looking for death.</p><p>The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the town’s first family whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile left at the altar three years prior never to recover. Another is engaged to the city’s rising political star an upright man who’s already boring her. And then there’s Lola the divorced bohemian black sheep. Together they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville Queen sits back—waiting for the crime to come to him.</p>