
by Ellery Queen · ISBN 9782277217664

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«Le roi est mort» is a crime novel by Ellery Queen, published by J'ai Lu in paperback (247 pages, in French).
Ellery Queen must protect the powerful magnate King Bendigo, a task that seems simple. But Bendigo dies hit by a bullet in a sealed room while Ellery watches Judah from another room: the detective faces an impossible crime, with a single suspect and no apparent explanation.
Originally published as The King Is Dead in 1952, it is the 23rd installment in the Ellery Queen Detective series.
For readers of classic crime fiction and the golden age of the genre, with locked-room mysteries.

John Holbrook Vance was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and mysteries. He wrote several mystery novels under pen names, including Ellery Queen.
