The man who never told a lie / Isaac Asimov—Thirteen lead soldiers / H.C. McNeile—The cold winds of Adesta / Thomas Flanagan—The problem of the covered bridge / Edward D. Hoch—The man who lost his taste / Lawrence G. Blochman—Mr. Omega / Jacob Hay—The system / Michael Gilbert—Jeeves and the stolen Venus / P.G. Wodehouse—The ordeal of Father Crumlish / Alice Scanlan Reach—Blessed are the meek / Georges Simenon—Mr. Strang takes a hand / William Brittain—Philo Grubb's greatest case / Ellis Parker Butler—Percival Bland's proxy / R. Austin Freeman — "My queer dean!" / Ellery Queen—Miser's gold / Ellery Queen—Diamond Dick / Jon L. Breen—The twelve little pickaninnies / Maurice Leblanc—Sir Gilbert Murrell's picture / Victor L. Whitechurch—Mom sings an aria / James Yaffe—Seed of suspicion / George Harmon Coxe.
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.
