# The Roman hat mystery

Author: Queen, Ellery

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76339

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Roman+hat+mystery+Queen&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I have been asked by both publisher and author to write a cursory preface to the story of Monte Field’s murder. Let me say at once that I am neither a writer nor a criminologist. To make authoritative remarks, therefore, anent the techniques of crime and crime-fiction is obviously beyond my capacity. Nevertheless, I have one legitimate claim to the privilege of introducing this remarkable story, based as it is upon perhaps the most mystifying crime of the past decade.... If it were not for me, “The Roman Hat Mystery” would never have reached the fiction-reading public. I am responsible for its having been brought to light; and there my pallid connection with it ends.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/20/index.md)
- [act I was pretty busy and couldn’t sit with him. But after the first](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/10/index.md)
- [PART FOUR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Act II, the detonations on the stage increased in volume. The second](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/6/index.md)
- [PART FOUR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/28/index.md)
- [PART TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/15/index.md)
- [PART THREE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/22/index.md)
- [PART ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART THREE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-roman-hat-mystery-76339/chapters/3/index.md)