A Room to Die In

Jack Vance (writing as Ellery Queen)A Room to Die InSUICIDE! Impossible! Ann Nelson was positive her admittedly eccentric father would never take his own life. Especially not when he'd just come into a pile of cool cash.The question was how to prove it to pigheaded Police Inspector Tarr. Finding the corpse, the gun, and a partly burned blackmail threat in a room locked and bolted from the inside provided a pretty good scenario for suicide and an almost-impossible-to-beat case against murder.Yet Ann was sure her father had been killed, though it took the uncovering of several more bodies before the cops were ready to listen. And then it was almost too late. Ann had put her finger on some dangerous clues, and if she didn't add them up fast enough a deadly murderer would put the finger on her .....