aka Barnaby Ross. "Ellery Queen" was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery. Although eventually famous on television and radio, Queen's first appearance came in 1928 when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book that would eventually be published as The Roman Hat Mystery. Their character was an amateur detective who used his spare time to assist his police inspector father in solving baffling crimes. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee's death. Several of the later "Ellery Queen" books were written by other authors, including Jack Vance, Avram Davidson, and Theodore Sturgeon.
Series
Books
Where Is Bianca?
1970
101 Years' Entertainment
The Great Detective Stories, 1841-1941
1941
A Room to Die in
1965
A Study in Terror
1966
O Mistério dos Fósforos Queimados
1936
And on the Eighth Day
1964
The Madman Theory
1966
Shoot the Scene
1966
Calamity Town / Dragon's teeth
1980
The Dutch Shoe Mystery
1931
Q.E.D. Queen's Experiments in Detection
1968
Why So Dead?
1966
Calendar of Crime
1952
Ten Days' Wonder
1948
Losers, Weepers
1966
The Hollywood Murders
1951
Wife or Death
1958
The Door Between
1936
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935
Which Way to Die?
1967
The Last Score
1964
The Four Johns and Blow Hot, Blow Cold
1964
Dead Man's Tale
1961
Ellery Queen's International Case Book
1964
The Origin of Evil
1951
The Three Students
2016
Queen's Bureau of Investigation
1954
The Tragedy of Errors and Others
1999
The Glass Village
1954
The Murderer is a Fox
1945
What's in the Dark?
1969
A Fine and Private Place
1971
Ellery Queen's Lethal Black Book
1965
The House of Brass
1968
The Egyptian Cross Mystery
1932
The Lamp of God
1992
The Greek Coffin Mystery
1932
The Black Hearts Murder
1970
The Blue Movie Murders
1973
10 relatos de detectives
1996
Ellery Queen
1988
The Perfect Crime
1942
There Was an Old Woman
1943
The Last Woman in His Life
1970
Kill As Directed
1963
The New Adventures of Ellery Queen
1940
The Best of Suspense
1989
Ellery Queen's Calendar of Crime
1952
Cop Out
1969
The French Powder Mystery
1930
Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice
1967
Double, Double
1950
Murder With a Past
1963
Queen's Quorum
a history of the detective-crime short story as revealed by the 106 most important books published in this f since 1845
1951
The King Is Dead
1952
The Roman Hat Mystery
1929
The Golden Goose
1964
Blow Hot, Blow Cold
1964
Queen's Ransom
The Roman Hat Mystery; Calamity Town; Cat of Many Tails
2005
The Tragedy of X
1932
The Scarlet Letters
1953
The Finishing Stroke
1958
The Penthouse Mystery
1941
Beware the Young Stranger
1965
The Devil to Pay
1937
Kiss and Kill
1969
The Reindeer Clue
2023
The Four Johns
1964
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1941
Rogues' Gallery
The Great Criminals Of Modern Fiction
1945
Guess Who's Coming to Kill You
1968
The Dragon's Teeth
1939
Masterpieces of Mystery
Detective Directory II
1975
The Copper Frame
1965
The Chinese Orange Mystery
1934
Terror Town
2016
Inspector Queen's Own Case
1956
House of Darkness
2010
Face to Face
1967
The Four of Hearts
1938
The Adventures of Ellery Queen
1934
The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries
2004
Masterpieces of Mystery
The Prizewinners
1976
The Siamese Twin Mystery
1933
The Killer Touch
1965
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
2018
Reader's Digest Great Detective Stories
1998
Death Spins the Platter
1962
Enigmi & Misteri
2008
Who Spies, Who Kills?
1966
Calamity Town
1942
The Fourth Side of the Triangle
1965
Morte na Universidade
1969
American Gun Mystery
1933
The Devil's Cook
1931
The Ellery Queen Case Book
1945
Cat of Many Tails
1949
The Player on the Other Side
1963
Masters of Suspense
1992
