The New Adventures Of Ellery Queen - Plot & Excerpts
Ellery Queen, the noted sleuth, during those early October days in Hollywood, would have said reverently that the great man’s intellect was once more locked in titanic struggle with the forces of evil. “Paula,” Mr. Queen said to Paula Paris, “I’m going mad.” “I hope,” said Miss Paris tenderly, “it’s love.” Mr. Queen paced, swathed in yards of thought. Queenly Miss Paris observed him with melting eyes. When he had first encountered her, during his investigation of the double murder of Blythe Stuart and Jack Royle, the famous motion-picture stars,* Miss Paris had been in the grip of a morbid psychology. She had been in a deathly terror of crowds. “Crowd phobia” the doctors called it. Mr. Queen, stirred by a nameless emotion, determined to cure the lady of her psychological affliction. The therapy, he conceived, must be both shocking and compensatory; and so he made love to her. And lo! although Miss Paris recovered, to his horror Mr. Queen found that the cure may sometimes present a worse problem than the affliction.
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