* DYING MESSAGE NOVELETTE: o Mum is the Word (EQMM, 4/66) * CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN DEDUCTION o Object Lesson (This Week, 09/10/55, as "The Blackboard Gangsters" and reprinted: EQMM, 4/58) o No Parking (This Week, 3/18/56, as "Terror in a Penthouse" and reprinted: EQMM, 2/58) o No Place to Live (This Week, 6/10/56, as "The Man They All Hated" and reprinted: EQMM, 3/58) o Miracles Do Happen (EQMM, 7/57) * Q.B.I.: QUEEN'S BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION o GAMBLING DEPT. — The Lonely Bride (This Week, 12/04/49, as "The Lady Couldn't Explain", The Sunday Herald 7/9/50 as"The Case Of the Lonely Bride") SPY DEPT. — Mystery at the Library of Congress (Argosy, 6/60 as "Enter Ellery Queen" reprinted: EQMM, 2/63) o SPY DEPT. — Dead Ringer ((?): Diners' Club, 3/65 and reprinted in EQMM, 10/66) o KIDNAPPING DEPT. — The Broken T (This Week, 11/3/63 as "Mystery in Neon Red" and reprinted in EQMM, 5/66) o MURDER DEPT. — Half a Clue (This Week, 8/25/63 as "Half a Clue to Murder"reprinted: EQMM, 8/66) o ANONYMOUS LETTERS DEPT. — Eve of the Wedding (EQMM, 8/55, as "Bride in Danger") o PROBATE DEPT. — Last Man to Die (This Week, 11/3/63 reprinted: Variety (Australian), 1964; EQMM, 1/67) o CRIME SYNDICATE DEPT. — Payoff (Cavalier, 8/64 as "Crime Syndicate Payoff" reprinted: EQMM 7/66) * THE PUZZLE CLUB o The Little Spy (Cavalier, 1/65 reprinted: EQMM, 9/66) o The President Regrets (Diner's Club, 9/65 reprinted: EQMM, 7/67) * HISTORICAL DETECTIVE STORY o Abraham Lincoln's Clue (MD, 6/65 reprinted: EQMM, 3/67) All stories originally published in This Week, Argosy, Cavalier, Signature, MD, and EQMM between 1949 and 1966.
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.
