* SOUTHERN SPAIN: The Beautiful Lady of El Puerto (05/30/54 as "The Fatal Tattoo") * JAPAN: Tokyo's Greatest Bank Robbery (06/27/54 as "Mad Murderer of Tokyo") * NORMANDY: Inspector Fosse's Last Case (08/08/54 as "The Gravedigger's Secret) * ARGENTINA: The Butcher of Buenos Aires (11/28/54 as "The Clue of the Missing Hands"). * RUMANIA: The Swindler of Adamolis (06/13/54 as "The Adamolis Swindle") * ALGERIA: The Strangled Bride of Oran (06/06/54 "The Strangled Bride") * MEXICO: The Jaws of Death (12/12/54 "The Claws of the Hawk") * INDIA: The Curse of Kali (07/18/54) * YUGOSLAVIA: Crime Wave, Balkan Style (07/04/54 as "No Name on the Search Warrant") * ECUADOR: The Mysterious Shooting at the Nacional (10/10/54 as "Masquerade for Murder") * PARIS: The Young Man Who Lost His Eyes (06/20/54 as "The Acid Test") * THE PHILIPPINES: Death in Manila (05/23/54 as "The Clue of the White Glove") * WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Death Among the Aborigines (07/11/54 as "Murder Down Under") * CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Curious Case of the Flirt (08/01/54 as "The Girl Who Flirted with Death") * MONTE CARLO: The Crime of the Croupier (10/17/54) * MOROCCO: African Love Story (09/26/54 as "Murder at the Wedding") * TURKEY: Secrets of the Harem (10/21/54 as "Death in the Harem") * CHINA: The Shanghai Shootings (01/02/55 as "The Clue of the Passionate Poem") * MADRID: The Red Virgin (12/05/54 as "The Red Maiden of Madrid) * JERUSALEM: Passion in the Holy Land (08/15/54 as "Dead in the Garden")
Author
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.
