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A puzzling publishing murder attracts the eye of ElleryQueen.

Mandarin Press is a premier publishing house for foreignliterature, but to those at the top of this enterprise, there is little morebeautiful than a rare stamp. As Donald Kirk, publisher and philatelist,prepares his office for a banquet, an unfamiliar man comes to call. No onerecognizes him, but Kirk’s staff is used to strange characters visiting theirboss, so Kirk’s secretary asks him to wait in the anteroom. Within an hour themysterious visitor is dead on the floor, head bashed in with a fireplace poker,and everything in the anteroom has been quite literally turned upside down. Therug is backwards; the furniture is backwards; even the dead man’s clothes havebeen put on front-to-back. As debonair detective Ellery Queen pries into thesecrets of Mandarin Press, every clue he finds is topsy-turvy. The great sleuthmust tread lightly, for walking backwards is a surefire way to step off acliff.