A wealthy heiress dies. She jumped off the balcony of her elegant home (or did she?). Was it suicide... or was it murder? The twist: she was reading one of Ellery's own murder mysteries at the time and she died exactly the same way as the victim in the book.
Keywords: 1940s , cheerful , detective , murder-investigation , new-york-city , nypd , post-world-war-ii , writer