Calamity Town

Little, Brown and Company, 1942. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No jacket, edges of pages 293-306 lightly chewed, pages lightly toned. 1942 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 318 pp. Calamity Town is a novel that was published in 1942 by Ellery Queen. It is a mystery novel primarily set in the fictional town of Wrightsville, a place that figures in several later Queen books. Ellery Queen moves into the small town of Wrightsville, somewhere in New England, in order to get some peace and quiet so that he can write a book. As a result of renting a furnished house, he becomes peripherally involved in the story of Jim Haight and Nora Wright. (truncated) Nora's father is president of the Wrightsville National bank, "oldest family in town", and when the head cashier Jim Haight became engaged to his daughter Nora, he built and furnished a house for them as a wedding present. That was three years ago (Inventory #: 2276810)