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Summary: The four sided triangle
Review: What a mystery! You'll never figure this one out before the end; it's impossible. It all begins one summer night when the famous dress designer, Shelia Gray, is shot in her apartment. A few minutes before she was visited by Ashton McKell, a multimillionare and her Platonic friend. Half an hour earlier she was nearly strangled by his son. Mrs. McKell furnished the bullets for the crime. A conspiracy? Maybe. They appeal to the legendary detective Ellery Queen for help. To find out the answer to the puzzle? Remember, it's easy to tell a lie.
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Summary: A puzzler from the 1960s
Review: Written in the sophisticated style of the classic Queen morphed into a more knowing, sexually daring 60s setting, THE FOURTH SIDE OF THE TRIANGLE is a little more mechanical than usual. Would any district attorney, even in Manhattan, try first a man, then his wife, then his son, for the same crime? I don't think so, even though one marvels at the way Ellery Queen, or whoever wrote this potboiler, ultimately does his best to make it seem possible if not plausible.
The plot turns on a particular sexual quirk of the victim, a fashionable New York coutierere called Sheila Grey, that not many will find convincing, and it also depends on the way everyone is willing to believe that the millionaire dad, Ashton McKell, is actually impotent. I suppose the point is that no man would ever say anything like that about himself unless it was really true and he was backed into a corner? McKell's wife, Lutetia, is from the old school but I do not believe that any woman, even one who seems to have stepped out of Edith Wharton's imagination, would be reading, in 1965, a novel by "Mrs. Oliphant." Give me a break.
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