I loved the Jim Hutton series of Ellery Queen in the 70s, so I was really looking forward to reading a collection of Ellery Queen short stories. But after the fourth I was starting to wish there were no more...

The stories themselves are each expertly crafted, perfect examples of logical deduction. And the language used does evoke 1930s New York (I imagine). But I didn't /enjoy/ them, possibly because Queen himself comes across as a real smarty-pants. And so after reading a few of these stories, I found the remainder were quite a slog and I just wanted them to end.