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Ellery Queen

(Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)

aka
Barnaby Ross

About Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen is the pseudonym of cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. Ellery Queen is also the name of their famous detective who has appeared in more than 30 novels and 70 short stories. He has been on the radio, in the movies, on television, and in comic books. The Mystery Writers of America gave Queen 7 Edgar awards and its coveted Grand Master award. Dannay and Lee also founded and edited Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine which, at 61 years and still going, is the longest running mystery anthology magazine in American history. They wrote Queen's Quorum, a scholarly examination of the detective short story, and edited more than 90 books of detective fiction. Worldwide, their books have sold more than 150 million copies.

Series

Drury Lane (writing as Barnaby Ross)
1. The Tragedy of X (1932)
2. The Tragedy of Y (1932)
3. The Tragedy of Z (1933)
4. Drury Lane's Last Case (1933)

Novels

The Roman Hat Mystery (1929)
The French Powder Mystery (1930)
The Dutch Shoe Mystery (1931)
The Egyptian Cross Mystery (1932)
The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932)
The American Gun Mystery (1933)
     aka Death At the Rodeo
The Siamese Twin Mystery (1933)
The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934)
The Lamp of God (1935)
The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)
Halfway House (1936)
The Door Between (1937)
The Four of Hearts (1938)
The Devil to Pay (1938)
The Dragon's Teeth (1939)
     aka The Virgin Heiresses
Calamity Town (1942)
There Was an Old Woman (1943)
     aka The Quick And the Dead
The Murderer Is a Fox (1945)
Ten Day's Wonder (1948)
Cat of Many Tails (1949)
Double, Double (1950)
     aka The Case of the Seven Murders
The Origin of Evil (1951)
The King Is Dead (1952)
The Scarlet Letters (1953)
The Golden Summer (1953)
The Glass Village (1954)
Inspector Queen's Own Case (1956)
The Finishing Stroke (1958)
The Player On The Other Side (1963)
Murder with a Past (1963)
And on the Eighth Day (1964) (with Avram Davidson)
The Fourth Side of the Triangle (1965) (with Avram Davidson)
The Devil's Cook (1966)
A Study in Terror (1966)
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (1967)
Face to Face (1967)
The House of Brass (1968)
Cop Out (1969)
The Last Woman in His Life (1970)
A Fine and Private Place (1971)

Omnibus

The Hollywood Murders (2000)

Collections

The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1934)
The New Adventures of Ellery Queen (1940)
Calendar of Crime (1952)
QBI: Queen's Bureau of Investigation (1955)
Queen's Full (1965)
QED: Queen's Experiment in Detection (1968)
The Best of Ellery Queen (1983)
The Tragedy of Errors (1999)

Anthologies edited

Anthologies containing stories by Ellery Queen

American Detective Stories (1943)
Daring Detectives (1969)
Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981)
Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1983)

Short stories

	The Adventure of the Glass-Domed Clock (1933)
	The Adventure of the Seven Black Cats (1933)
	The Adventure of the African Traveller

Ellery Queen recommends

What Dread Hand? (1968)
Christianna Brand
"Christianna Brand is a magician."

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