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Ellery Queen was a famous author that wrote mysteries, thrillers, and children’s fiction. Ellery Queen captured the attention of the public because the name was a pseudonym.

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Order of Drury Lane Series as Barnaby Ross

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1 The Tragedy of X 1932 Description / Buy
2 The Tragedy of Y 1932 Description / Buy
3 The Tragedy of Z 1933 Description / Buy
4 Drury Lane's Last Case 1933 Description / Buy

Order of Ellery Queen Detective Series

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1 The Roman Hat Mystery 1929 Description / Buy
2 The French Powder Mystery 1930 Description / Buy
3 The Dutch Shoe Mystery 1931 Description / Buy
4 The Greek Coffin Mystery 1932 Description / Buy
5 The Egyptian Cross Mystery 1932 Description / Buy
6 The American Gun Mystery / Death at the Rodeo 1933 Description / Buy
7 The Siamese Twin Mystery 1933 Description / Buy
8 The Chinese Orange Mystery 1934 Description / Buy
9 The Lamp of God (Short Story) 1935 Description / Buy
10 The Spanish Cape Mystery 1935 Description / Buy
11 Halfway House 1936 Description / Buy
12 The Door Between 1936 Description / Buy
13 The Four of Hearts 1938 Description / Buy
14 The Devil to Pay 1938 Description / Buy
15 The Dragon's Teeth / The Virgin Heiresses 1939 Description / Buy
16 The Penthouse Mystery 1941 Description / Buy
17 Calamity Town 1942 Description / Buy
18 The Perfect Crime 1942 Description / Buy
19 There Was an Old Woman / The Quick and the Dead 1943 Description / Buy
20 The Murderer is a Fox (Short Story) 1945 Description / Buy
21 Ten Days' Wonder 1948 Description / Buy
22 Cat of Many Tails 1949 Description / Buy
23 Double, Double / The Case of the Seven Murders 1950 Description / Buy
24 The Origin of Evil 1951 Description / Buy
25 The King is Dead 1952 Description / Buy
26 The Golden Summer 1953 Description / Buy
27 The Scarlet Letters 1953 Description / Buy
28 The Glass Village 1954 Description / Buy
29 Inspector Queen's Own Case 1957 Description / Buy
30 The Finishing Stroke 1958 Description / Buy
31 Queens Full 1960 Description / Buy
32 Dead Man's Tale 1961 Description / Buy
33 Death Spins the Platter 1962 Description / Buy
34 The Player On Other Side 1963 Description / Buy
35 Kill as Directed 1963 Description / Buy
36 Murder with a Past 1963 Description / Buy
37 And on the Eighth Day 1964 Description / Buy
38 Four Men Called John 1964 Description / Buy
39 Ellery Queen's Lethal Black Book 1965 Description / Buy
40 The Fourth Side of the Triangle 1965 Description / Buy
41 A Study in Terror 1966 Description / Buy
42 Losers, weepers 1966 Description / Buy
43 Shoot The Scene 1966 Description / Buy
44 The Madman Theory 1966 Description / Buy
45 Face to Face 1967 Description / Buy
46 Q.E.D. Queen's Experiments in Detection 1968 Description / Buy
47 House of Brass 1968 Description / Buy
48 The Devil's Cook 1968 Description / Buy
49 Cop Out 1969 Description / Buy
50 The Last Woman in His Life 1970 Description / Buy
51 Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice 1970 Description / Buy
52 A Fine and Private Place 1971 Description / Buy
53 Blow Hot Blow Cold 1974 Description / Buy
54 The House of Brass 1978 Description / Buy
55 Ellery Queen, Master Detective 2020 Description / Buy

Order of Ellery Queen Jr. Mystery Series

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1 The Black Dog Mystery 1941 Description / Buy
2 The Black Dog Mystery ( By: Ellery Queen Jr.) 1941 Description / Buy
3 The Green Turtle Mystery 1944 Description / Buy
4 The Red Chipmunk Mystery 1946 Description / Buy
5 The Brown Fox Mystery ( By: Ellery Queen Jr.) 1948 Description / Buy
6 The Golden Eagle Mystery 1948 Description / Buy
7 The Brown Fox Mystery 1948 Description / Buy
8 The White Elephant Mystery ( By: Ellery Queen Jr.) 1950 Description / Buy
9 The White Elephant Mystery 1950 Description / Buy
10 The Yellow Cat Mystery ( By: Ellery Queen Jr.) 1952 Description / Buy
11 The Yellow Cat Mystery 1952 Description / Buy
12 The Mystery of the Vanished Victim ( By: Ellery Queen Jr.) 1954 Description / Buy
13 The Mystery of the Merry Magician ( By: Ellery Queen Jr.) 1954 Description / Buy
14 The Blue Herring Mystery 1954 Description / Buy
15 The Mystery of the Merry Magician 1961 Description / Buy
16 The Mystery of the Vanished Victim 1962 Description / Buy
17 The Purple Bird Mystery ( By: Ellery Queen Jr.) 1965 Description / Buy
18 The Purple Bird Mystery 1965 Description / Buy
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Order of Tim Corrigan Series

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1 Where Is Bianca? (Short Story) 1966 Description / Buy
2 How Goes the Murder? (Short Story) 1966 Description / Buy
3 Who Spies, Who Kills? (Short Story) 1966 Description / Buy
4 Why So Dead? 1966 Description / Buy
5 Which Way to Die? (Short Story) 1967 Description / Buy
6 Guess Who's Coming to Kill You? (Short Story) 1968 Description / Buy
7 What's in the Dark? (Short Story) 1969 Description / Buy

Order of Mike McCall Series

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1 The Campus Murders 1969 Description / Buy
2 The Black Hearts Murder (Short Story) 1970 Description / Buy
3 The Blue Movie Murders 1973 Description / Buy

Order of Masterpieces of Mystery Series

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1 Masterpieces of Mystery 1976 Description / Buy

Order of Ellery Queen Standalone Novels

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1 Player on the Other Side 1963 Description / Buy
2 Wife or Death (Short Story) 1963 Description / Buy
3 The Last Score ( With: Charles W. Runyon) 1964 Description / Buy
4 The Killer Touch ( With: Charles W. Runyon) 1965 Description / Buy
5 Beware the Young Stranger 1965 Description / Buy
6 The Copper Frame 1965 Description / Buy
7 A Room To Die In 1965 Description / Buy
8 Penthouse Mystery, The (Short Story) 1968 Description / Buy
9 The Most Wanted Man In The World (Short Story) 1968 Description / Buy
10 Kiss and Kill ( With: Charles W. Runyon) 1969 Description / Buy
11 When Fell The Night 1970 Description / Buy
12 Door Between 1972 Description / Buy
13 Eyes of Mystery 1981 Description / Buy
14 House of Darkness (Short Story) 2010 Description / Buy

Order of Ellery Queen Short Story Collections

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1 The Adventures of Ellery Queen 1933 Description / Buy
2 The New Adventures of Ellery Queen 1939 Description / Buy
3 Calendar of Crime 1952 Description / Buy
4 QBI: Queen's Bureau of Investigation 1965 Description / Buy
5 QED: Queen's Experiments in Detection 1968 Description / Buy
6 Kindly Dig Your Grave and Other Wicked Stories 1977 Description / Buy
7 The Tragedy of Errors and Others 1999 Description / Buy
8 The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries 2004 Description / Buy
9 The Adventures of the Murdered Moths 2004 Description / Buy
10 The Adventures of the Puzzle Club ( With: Josh Pachter) 2022 Description / Buy

Order of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Annual Series

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1 Ellery Queen's Crime Carousel 1960 Description / Buy
2 Ellery Queen's 16th Mystery Annual ( By: Henry Slesar) 1961 Description / Buy
3 To Be Read Before Midnight 1962 Description / Buy
4 Ellery Queen All Stars 1967 Description / Buy
5 Ellery Queen's Mystery Parade 1968 Description / Buy
6 Ellery Queen's Mini Mysteries 1969 Description / Buy
7 Ellery Queen's Mystery Bag 1972 Description / Buy
8 Ellery Queen's Best Bets 1972 Description / Buy
9 Ellery Queen's Crookbook 1974 Description / Buy
10 Ellery Queen's Book Of Mystery Stories 1974 Description / Buy
11 Ellery Queen's Murdercade 1975 Description / Buy
12 Ellery Queen's Crime Wave 1976 Description / Buy
13 Ellery Queen's Giants of Mystery 1976 Description / Buy
14 Ellery Queen's Magicians Of Mystery 1976 Description / Buy
15 X Marks the Plot 1977 Description / Buy
16 Ellery Queen's Crimes and Consequences 1977 Description / Buy
17 Ellery Queen's International Case Book 1977 Description / Buy
18 Ellery Queen's Cops And Capers 1977 Description / Buy
19 Ellery Queen's Japanese Golden Dozen 1978 Description / Buy
20 Ellery Queen's The Golden 13 1980 Description / Buy
21 Ellery Queen's Crime Cruise Round the World ( By: T. M. Adams) 1981 Description / Buy
22 Ellery Queen's Veils of Mystery 1981 Description / Buy
23 Ellery Queen's Doors to Mystery 1981 Description / Buy
24 Ellery Queen's Maze Of Mysteries 1982 Description / Buy
25 Ellery Queen's Book of First Appearances 1982 Description / Buy
26 Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes 1984 Description / Buy
27 Ellery Queen's Crimes and Punishments 1984 Description / Buy
28 Ellery Queen's Prime Crimes Two 1985 Description / Buy
29 Ellery Queen's a Multitude of Sins 1986 Description / Buy
30 Ellery Queen's Circumstantial Evidence 1987 Description / Buy
31 Ellery Queen's Champions Of Mystery 1987 Description / Buy
32 Ellery Queen's Masks of Mystery 1988 Description / Buy
33 Ellery Queen's Crime Cruise Round the World 1989 Description / Buy
34 Ellery Queen's More Lost Ladies and Lost Men 1989 Description / Buy
35 Ellerys Queen's Masters of Mystery 1989 Description / Buy
36 Ellery Queen's Eyewitnesses 1991 Description / Buy
37 Ellery Queen's Screen Favourites 1991 Description / Buy
38 Ellery Queen's More Eyewitnesses 1992 Description / Buy
39 Ellery Queen's Edgar Award Winners 1992 Description / Buy
40 Ellery Queen's Faces of Mystery 1992 Description / Buy
41 Ellery Queen's Other Faces of Mystery 1994 Description / Buy
42 Ellery Queen's Windows Of Mystery 1994 Description / Buy
43 Ellery Queen's Searches and Seizures 1995 Description / Buy
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Ellery Queen Anthologies

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1 Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction 1948 Description / Buy
2 20 Great Tales of Murder 1952 Description / Buy
3 Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine Volume 1 Number 1, January 1954 1954 Description / Buy
4 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July 1958 1958 Description / Buy
5 The Locked Room Reader: Stories of Impossible Crimes and Escapes 1968 Description / Buy
6 Daring Detectives 1969 Description / Buy
7 American City 1972 Description / Buy
8 Space Suits & Gumshoes 1972 Description / Buy
9 Chapter and Hearse 1985 Description / Buy
10 Deadly Arts 1985 Description / Buy
11 Wickedest Show on Earth 1985 Description / Buy
12 Handle with Care: Frightening Stories 1985 Description / Buy
13 Murder for Christmas 1987 Description / Buy
14 Great Baseball Stories 1990 Description / Buy
15 Great Tales of Crime and Detection 1992 Description / Buy
16 Fifty Best Mysteries 1993 Description / Buy
17 The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories 1996 Description / Buy
18 The Oxford Book of Detective Stories 2000 Description / Buy
19 The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century 2000 Description / Buy
20 A Century of Great Suspense Stories 2001 Description / Buy
21 The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction 2004 Description / Buy
22 The Further Misadventures of Ellery Queen 2020 Description / Buy
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It belonged to two cousins: Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee. Those were their professional names. Frederic’s real name was ‘Daniel Nathan.’ He was born in 1905 and died in 1982. Manfred’s real name was ‘Emmanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, born in 1905 and died in 1971.

Under the ‘Ellery Queen’ name, they wrote 30 novels and a multitude of short stories. Interestingly enough, their most popular creation was the detective ‘Ellery Queen.’

Ellery was America’s most prominent fictional detective in the 1930s and 40s, making several appearances in movies, tv shows, and radio dramas. Besides writing mystery novels, the authors edited more than two dozen crime fiction and true crime anthologies using their pen name.

Later on, they permitted other authors to write crime thrillers using their pseudonym. But these writers were prohibited from using the character of ‘Ellery Queen’ in their stories.

Eventually, they experimented with ‘Drury Lane,’ a new detective whose stories they wrote and published using a different pen name: Barnaby Ross. Drury Lane was not as popular as Ellery Queen, and they only wrote four novels about the detective.

People would often speculate about Ellery Queen’s approach to the writing process. The common assumption was that Dannay created the plots and clues. He would also outline the characters and their arcs.

Lee would provide the words that brought Dannay’s plots and characters together. No one can say for sure whether or not this was true. Regardless of their writing process, the authors garnered a strong reputation as the most important mystery fiction writers in American publishing, secondly only to Poe.

Ellery Queen, the detective, was introduced to readers in 1928 when the cousins created the character for a novel they entered in a McClure’s Magazine writing contest. Their entry won the competition, but the victory was meaningless because the magazine closed before their story was published.

A year later, they found another publisher. Readers were fascinated by the intricacy of ‘The Roman Hat Mystery,’ a book that dared them to solve the mystery alongside Ellery.

Once interest in the character grew, the cousins gave their pen name a fictitious background. He was supposedly narrating his adventures in the mystery novels that readers encountered.

The detective introduced himself as a snobbish, educated intellectual born to the daughter of a New York aristocrat. He was larger than life, a figure with whom readers could barely relate.

But over time, he became more human, betraying his emotions to the people he came across during his cases.

Ellery Queen Awards

Queen received Edgar Awards (Mystery Writers of America) in 1946, 1950, 1961, and 1969.

Ellery Queen Books Into Movies

Various mystery films were directly or loosely inspired by Ellery Queen’s work, including: ‘The Spanish Cape Mystery,’ ‘The Mandarin Mystery,’ ‘Ellery Queen, Master Detective,’ and, ‘Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery,’

They also made ‘Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime,’ ‘Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring,’ ‘A Close Call for Ellery Queen,’ ‘A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen,’ ‘Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen,’ and ‘Ten Days’ Wonder,’ to mention but a few.

Best Ellery Queen Books

Ellery Queen, the author, died when Manfred Lee died. Though, Dannay lived for 11 years following Lee’s death. Ellery Queen’s best books include:

The Roman Hat Mystery: A crooked lawyer is dead. Someone used lead alcohol to poison him at the end of the second act of a play at the Roman Theater. The only significant clue is his fine silk top hat, which is missing.

Richard Queen and his son Ellery have been summoned to investigate. The detectives are fixated on the hat because none of the people leaving the theater had two hats.

They don’t know why anyone would take the hat or how it fits into the murder, but they have every intention of finding out.

The Greek Coffin Mystery: George Khalkis was gone. The famous art dealer died of a heart attack. But that isn’t the reason that compelled his lawyer to contact the district attorney. Inspector Queen and his son were called upon to investigate because the older man’s will was missing.

After searching every nook and cranny, Ellery wondered whether anyone had bothered to check the coffin. When they exhumed Khalkis, the detectives were shocked to find two bodies.

When Does The Next Ellery Queen book come out?

Ellery Queen doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is The Adventures of the Puzzle Club and was released on October, 31st 2022. It is the newest book in the Ellery Queen Short Story Collections.

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  1. I’m looking for a short story in EEMM about a father who listens to a ham radio and can hear future occurrences and ends with his son’s death? Possibly by drowning? My brother used to get the subscription in the 70’s and 80’s

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