dear reader: If you read it, but missed the "Open Letter to the Reader" in the book, or didn't read it at all - then of course you didn't read the "Open Letter to the Reader" in the book - then listen to us What is it about Ellery Quinn and Barnaby Ross who are both two people and the same person (other readers can go directly to this book). Like the other three books in the "Jerry Lane Tragedy Series", it was originally published under the pseudonym "Barnaby Ross".At that time, a series of works portraying the young and wise detective Mr. Ellery Queen had already established a stable place in the prosperous mystery market.

As the detective Mr. Ellery Queen's detective stories are created by two mysterious authors known by the common pen name "Ellery Queen", and because the new series introduces a different detective —Mr. Jerry Lane, the two young men who had been hidden behind the pseudonym "Ellery Quinn" felt the need for a new pseudonym, so to speak... and they did so immediately, Calling them (his) himself Barnaby Ross. Well, if this explanation doesn't make it clear, it's because the English language is ill-suited to express complex issues involving multiple identities. Perhaps the whole complication is easier to understand by simplifying it this way: We have been writing for thirteen years under the pseudonym "Ellery Quinn"; A new character was introduced, and when he was introduced to readers, he took a new pseudonym—Barnaby Ross, which was born and disappeared only for this purpose.

The four books in the "Jerry Lane-Barnaby Ross Series" are now grouped under our real pen name "Ellery Quinn" by the publisher of Detective Ellery Quinn Society reprint.We love them all, especially Mr. Jerry Lane, and we're sure you will feel the same, and that love will continue.Don't hesitate, enjoy it, whoever wrote it!