Quotes About Ellery

Ellery made good on his threat to put on his pajamas—warm flannel, soft as a kitten's ass. Jackson had actually gotten to sleep a couple of nights by petting those damned pajamas.

Outbreak Monkey song coming from the Bluetooth speaker on Ellery's new desk.

On second thought, there was no gift big enough for Mike. Maybe a house. Maybe buy Jackson's duplex from Jackson and just give it, carte blanche, to Mike. These were hard truths—terrible, painful truths. From Ellery they'd sound petty and self-serving.

O wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee Death."*

Ellery Queen was here probably paraphrasing the Shakespearian quotation: "O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.