As author of the popular Ellery Queen novels and short stories, as literary historian and critic, and especially as editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine--Ellery Queen was the single greatest force in the mid-1900s for the survival and health of the detective-crime short story. Queen'[...]

For generations, the name "Ellery Queen" has been synonymous with the finest in mystery fiction. When cousins Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred Lee (1905-1971) created the iconic character and byline in 1929, they had no idea how influential he (and they) would become. Books, movies, televisio[...]

" Let s face it, Alex: you were the KGB s top assassin, and they paid you off. Just as we might. A cushy lieutenant-colonelcy in Tokyo, riding "pour le sport," a yacht, your pick of Eurasian dolls Like? We can do you better in the USA, Alex come on over, and bring your secrets with you. "That was FA[...]

Who killed Cox, the robber? Was it Ruth Tully, who visited Crandall Cox on the night of his death, and who might have decided to quench a torrid past with a spray of bullets? What about Sandra Jean, the knock- em-dead beauty, who knew more than she was telling about the sudden demise of blackmailer [...]

Once upon an evil time, there was a wicked old woman with a mammoth shoe company worth many millions of dollars, a henpecked husband, and six miserable children. Then one day death came visiting the vast Potts mansion and began claiming its inhabitants one by one. It was then that Ellery Queen was i[...]

Eccentric multimillionaire Cadmus Cole hires Ellery Queen to investigate a case but won t say what it is. When Cole dies mysteriously at sea, Queen and his partner, Beau Rummell, must navigate a thicket of complications that includes a fifty-million-dollar legacy, two beautiful but avaricious women [...]

In this third Drury Lane novel, the elderly detective is aided by Patience Thumm in the investigation of the mysterious death of a corrupt state senator. Senator Fawcett, a man with many enemies, is found stabbed to death in his study. Patience and her father, Inspector Thumm, try to unravel the web[...]

"Blue film and blood-red murder "All Hollywood producer Ben Sloane had wanted was to find Sol Dahlman, the mysterious film genius who had made "The Wild Nymph" and now Sloane is dead. Go up to Rockview, the governor tells Mike McCall, and get me the killer But isn t quite that easy. The Mann Photo [...]

This was cold-blooded murder The Syndicate led by gangster Larry Cutter are trying to take over Iroquois. They want the town, its mayor and police chief in their pocket. So they kill chief Andy Saxon and one of his top men. Then they move in to clean up. But they had reckoned without with the chief [...]

An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery QueenThey are two brilliant madmen who think killing is fun. A freak of the law has set them free, and now a hidden killer, acting as judge, jury, and executioner, threatens them both. Enter Tim Corrigan, assigned to protect the pair against the fatal harve[...]