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{{Short description|Detective fiction writer (joint pseudonym)}}

[[Image:Ellery Queen NYWTS.jpg|thumb|Frederic Dannay (left), with James Yaffe (1943)]]

{{other uses|Ellery Queen (disambiguation)}}

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| image caption = Manfred Lee (left) and Frederic Dannay

| name = Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee

| birth_name = Daniel Nathan (Dannay)<br>{{birth date|1905|10|20}}<br>[[Brooklyn, New York]]<hr>Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky (Lee)<br>{{birth date|1905|1|11}}<br>Brooklyn, New York

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| alma mater = [[New York University]] (Lee)

| years_active = 1929–1971

| spouse = {{marriage|Kaye Brinker, to Lee|1942}}{{force singular}} {{marriage|Rose Koppel, to Dannay|1975}}{{force singular}}

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'''Ellery Queen''' is a [[pseudonym]] created in 1928 by the American [[detective fiction]] writers '''Frederic Dannay''' (1905–1982) and '''Manfred Bennington Lee''' (1905–1971). It is also the name of their main [[fictional detective]], a mystery writer in [[New York City]] who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murder cases.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Wheat |first=Carolyn |date=June 2005 |title=The Last Word The Real Queen(s) of Crime |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240806799 |journal=Clues: A Journal of Detection|volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=87–90 |doi=10.3200/CLUS.23.4.87-90 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="britannica/Ellery-Queen" /><ref name=":1" /> From 1929 to 1971, Dannay and Lee wrote around forty [[novel]]s and [[short story collection]]s in which Ellery Queen appears as a character.

Under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, they also edited more than thirty anthologies of [[crime fiction]] and true crime. Dannay founded, and for many years edited, the crime fiction magazine ''[[Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine]]'', which has been published continuously from 1941 to the present. From 1961 onwards, Dannay and Lee commissioned other authors to write [[Thriller (genre)|thrillers]] using the pseudonym Ellery Queen, but not featuring Ellery Queen as a character; some such novels were [[Young adult fiction|juvenile]] and were credited to '''Ellery Queen Jr.''' They also wrote four novels under the pseudonym '''Barnaby Ross''', which featured the detective [[Drury Lane (character)|Drury Lane]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Symons |first=Julian |title=Great detectives: Seven Original Investigations |publisher=Abrams |year=1981 |isbn=978-0810909786}}</ref><ref name="jmodeperistud.9.2.0220" /> Several movies, radio shows, and television shows have been based on their works.<ref name=":6">Multiple sources:

'''Ellery Queen''' is both a [[fictional character]] and a [[pseudonym]] used by two American cousins from [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]]: Daniel (David) Nathan, alias '''Frederic Dannay''' ([[October 20]], [[1905]]–[[September 3]], [[1982]]) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias '''Manfred Bennington Lee''' ([[January 11]], [[1905]]–[[April 3]], [[1971]]), to write [[detective fiction]]. In a successful series of [[novel]]s that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen was not only the name of the author, but also that of the detective-hero of the stories. Movies, radio shows, and television shows have been based on their works. The two, particularly Dannay, were also responsible for co-founding and directing ''[[Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine]]'', generally considered as one of the most influential English [[crime fiction]] magazines of the last sixty-five years. They were also prominent historians in the field, editing numerous collections and anthologies of short stories such as ''The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes''. Their 994-page anthology for [[The Modern Library]], ''101 Years' Entertainment, The Great Detective Stories, 1841-1941'', was a landmark work that remained in print for many years. The cousins, under their collective pseudonym, were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the [[Mystery Writers of America]] in 1961.

* https://archive.org/details/Ellery_Queen_DuMont

==Ellery Queen, Detective==

* https://archive.org/details/theAdventuresOfElleryQueen-DeathSpinsAWheel1951

Ellery Queen was created when Dannay and Lee entered a writing contest sponsored by a magazine for the best first mystery novel. They decided to use as their collective pseudonym the same name that they had given their detective. Ellery's last name was originally Bone. Inspired by the formula and style of the [[Philo Vance]] novels by [[S. S. Van Dine]], their entry won the contest but before it could be published, the magazine was sold and the prize given to another entrant by the new owner. Undeterred, the cousins decided to take the novel to publishers, and ''[[The Roman Hat Mystery]]'' was published in [[1929 in literature|1929]].

* https://archive.org/details/theAdventuresOfElleryQueen-MurderToMusic1951

* https://archive.org/details/theAdventuresOfElleryQueen-BuckFever1952

* https://archive.org/details/theAdventuresOfElleryQueen-ManWhoEnjoyedDeath1951

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Dannay and Lee were cousins, who were better known by their professional names.<ref name="britannica/Ellery-Queen"/><ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Goodrich |first=Joseph |title=Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen 1947-1950 |publisher=Perfect Crime Books |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-935797-38-8}}</ref> Frederic Dannay was the professional name of '''Daniel Nathan'''<ref name="somethingisgoingtohappen/rand-b-lee"/><ref name="britannica/Ellery-Queen"/> and Manfred Bennington Lee that of '''Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky'''.<ref name="britannica/Ellery-Queen">{{cite web |title=Ellery Queen |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ellery-Queen |website=Britannica .com |access-date=26 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="somethingisgoingtohappen/rand-b-lee">{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Rand B. |date=29 June 2016 |title=The Story Is the Thing |url=https://somethingisgoingtohappen.net/2016/06/29/the-story-is-the-thing-by-rand-b-lee/ |access-date=26 June 2023 |website= |language=en |quote=In the 1920s, when Dad applied to New York University as Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky..... change his name from Emanuel Lepofsky to Manfred Lee. (Eventually, Dad's father and sisters adopted "Lee" as their surnames; and Dad’s cousin and future writing partner changed his name from Daniel Nathan to Frederic Dannay.)}}</ref><ref name="jmodeperistud.9.2.0220">{{cite journal |last1=Pennywark |first1=Leah |title=Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Postpulp: From Modern to Postmodern |journal=The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies |date=1 July 2018 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=220–244 |doi=10.5325/jmodeperistud.9.2.0220 |jstor=10.5325/jmodeperistud.9.2.0220 |s2cid=203528158 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jmodeperistud.9.2.0220 |access-date=26 June 2023|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Since 2013, the complete works of Ellery Queen have been represented by JABberwocky Literary Agency.<ref name="queen.spaceports/Copyright">{{cite web |last1=Sercu |first1=Kurt |title=Copyright information |url=http://queen.spaceports.com/Copyright_info.html |website=Ellery Queen, a website on deduction |access-date=26 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310133759/http://queen.spaceports.com/Copyright_info.html |archive-date=10 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ellery Queen – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc |url=https://awfulagent.com/jabclients/ellery-queen/ |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=awfulagent.com}}</ref>

''The Roman Hat Mystery'' established the basic formula: the unusual crime; the complex series of clues; the supporting characters of Ellery's father, Inspector Richard Queen, and his irascible assistant, Sergeant Velie; and what would become the most famous part of the book: Ellery's "Challenge to the Reader". This was a single page near the end of the book declaring that the reader now had seen all the same clues Ellery had, and that only one solution is possible. "The rare distinction of the books is that this claim is accurate. There are problems in deduction that do really permit of only one answer, and there are few crime stories indeed of which this can be said."<ref>''Bloody Murder'', Julian Symons, first published Faber and Faber 1972, with revisions in Penguin 1974, ISBN 014 003794 2</ref>

==Personal lives of Dannay and Lee==

The fictional detective Ellery Queen is the author of the books in which he appears (''The Finishing Stroke'', 1958) and the editor of the magazine that bears his name (''The Player On The Other Side'', 1963). In the earlier novels he is a snobbish, almost priggish Harvard-educated intellectual of independent wealth who wore a [[pince-nez]] and investigated and solved crimes solely because he found them stimulating. He derived these characteristics from his mother, the daughter of a rich aristocratic New York family who had married Inspector Queen, a bluff, man-in-the-street New York Irishman, and died before the stories began. His mannerisms in the first nine or ten novels were apparently based on those of the then-extremely popular Philo Vance character of the same era.<ref>''The Roman Hat Mystery'' ... introduces two new detectives, the Queens, father and son. One is a genial snuff addict, the other a philovancish bookworm. They are agreeable enough, if somewhat too coy and too chorus-like in their repartee. ''Saturday Review of Literature'', Oct. 12, 1929, quoted in ''The Finishing Stroke'', 1958.</ref> As time went on, however, these mannerisms were toned down or disappeared entirely. Beginning with ''Calamity Town'' in 1940, Ellery became much more human and often became emotionally affected by the people in his cases, at one point quitting detective work altogether. In the very late novels, however, he often seemed a near-faceless, near-characterless persona whose role was purely to solve the mystery.

Manfred Bennington Lee was born as Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky on January 11, 1905, in [[Brooklyn, New York]].<ref name="britannica/Ellery-Queen"/> He graduated from the [[New York University]] with a ''summa cum laude'' degree in English in the 1920s.<ref name="somethingisgoingtohappen/rand-b-lee" /> He died on April 3, 1971, in Roxbury, Connecticut, survived by his second wife Kaye Brinker and seven children from the two marriages.<ref name="britannica/Ellery-Queen" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Tomasson |first=Robert E. |date=1971-04-04 |title=Manfred B. Lee Is Dead at 65; One of 'Ellery Queen Authors |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/04/archives/manfred-b-lee-is-dead-at-65-one-ofu11ery-queen-authors-he-and.html |access-date=2023-09-19 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Frederic Dannay was born as Daniel Nathan on October 20, 1905, in Brooklyn, New York.<ref name="britannica/Ellery-Queen" /><ref name="queen.spaceports/Whodunit-2">{{cite web |last1=Sercu |first1=Kurt |title=Whodunit?: a serial of aliasses - page 2 - Boyhood |url=http://queen.spaceports.com/Whodunit_2.html |website=Ellery Queen, a website on deduction |access-date=26 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217130510/http://queen.spaceports.com/Whodunit_2.html |archive-date=17 February 2015}}</ref> He married his third wife Rose Koppel, an assistant registrar at the [[Ethical Culture Fieldston School]], in 1975 (his first two wives had both died; Dannay had three children from those marriages).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dannay |first=Rose Koppel |title=My Life With Ellery Queen: A Love Story |publisher=Perfect Crime Books |date=7 February 2016 |isbn=978-1-935797-66-1}}</ref> He died on September 3, 1982, in White Plains, New York.<ref name="britannica/Ellery-Queen" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Gaiter |first=Dorothy J. |date=1982-09-05 |title=FREDERIC DANNAY, 76, CO-AUTHOR OF ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERIES, DIES |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/05/obituaries/frederic-dannay-76-co-author-of-ellery-queen-mysteries-dies.html |access-date=2023-09-19 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

==Story style==

The Queen novels are examples of the classic "fair play", [[whodunit]] mystery, particularly during what became known as the "Golden Age" of the mystery novel. All the clues are made available to the reader in the same way they are to the protagonist detective, and so the reading of the book becomes an intellectual challenge as well. Mystery writer [[John Dickson Carr]] termed it "the grandest game in the world." Other characteristics of the early Queen novels were the intricately plotted clues and solutions. In ''[[The Greek Coffin Mystery]]'' ([[1932 in literature|1932]]), multiple solutions to the mystery are proposed, a feature that would show up in later books, most notably ''[[Double, Double (Ellery Queen)|Double, Double]]'' and ''[[Ten Days' Wonder]]''. The EQ "false solution, then the true" would become a hallmark of the canon.

== Pseudonym==

In that same year, the cousins created [[Drury Lane (fictional detective)|Drury Lane]] under the name of [[Barnaby Ross]], eventually writing four novels about Lane, a [[Shakespeare|Shakespearian]] actor/detective. These novels were later reissued under the Ellery Queen byline. For a while in the 1930s "Ellery Queen" and "Barnaby Ross" even staged a series of public debates in which one cousin impersonated Queen and the other impersonated Ross, both men wearing masks to preserve their anonymity.

[[File:Ellery Queen NYWTS.jpg|thumb|Frederic Dannay (left) with EQMM contributor James Yaffe in 1943.]]

Ellery Queen was created in the fall of 1928 when Dannay and Lee entered a mystery novel writing contest offering a prize of $7500 ({{Inflation|index=US|value=7500|start_year=1928|r=-3|fmt=eq}}) jointly sponsored by ''[[McClure's]]'' magazine and [[Frederick A. Stokes Company]]. They decided to use as their collective pseudonym the same name they had given to their detective as they believed readers tended to remember the names of detectives but forget those of their creators. They were informed that they had won the contest, but ''McClure's'' magazine went bankrupt and was absorbed by ''[[The Smart Set]]'' magazine before they received any money.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=McClure's magazine v.61 no.2 Aug. 1928. |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x030751674?urlappend=%3Bseq=1 |access-date=2023-09-23 |website=HathiTrust | hdl=2027/uva.x030751674?urlappend=%3Bseq=1 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=12 August 1928 |title=Books and Authors |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/08/12/archives/books-and-authors.html |access-date=2023-09-23 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Blottner |first=Gene |title=Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926-1955: The Harry Cohn Years |publisher=McFarland |year=2011 |isbn=978-0786433537}}</ref>

''The Smart Set'' magazine rejudged the contest and awarded the prize to an entry by the writer [[Isabel Briggs Myers]] but in 1929, Frederick A. Stokes Company agreed to publish Dannay and Lee's story under the title ''[[The Roman Hat Mystery]].'' Buoyed by its success, they were contracted to write more mysteries and they went on to write a successful series of novels and short stories that lasted 42 years until Lee's death in 1971.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Queen |first=Ellery |url=https://archive.org/details/pg000161/pg000002.jpg |title=The Roman Hat Mystery |publisher=Frederick A. Stokes Company |year=1929}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Norris |first=J. F. |date=2012-12-01 |title=Pretty Sinister Books: The Enigma of the New McClure's Mystery Contest |url=https://prettysinister.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-enigma-of-new-mcclures-mystery.html |access-date=2023-09-23 |website=Pretty Sinister Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=15 August 1954 |title=Whodunit? Theydunit, the Team of Dannay and Lee; THE GLASS VILLAGE. By Ellery Queen. 281 pp. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. $3.50. |language=en |work=The New York Times |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1954/08/15/92599175.html |access-date=2023-09-23}}</ref>

By [[1938 in literature|1938]], with Ellery making the move to [[Hollywood]] to try his hand at scriptwriting, both his character and the character of the novels began to change. Romance was introduced, the solutions began to involve psychological elements as well, and the "Challenge" vanished from the pages. The novels also moved from mere puzzles to more introspective themes. ''Ten Days' Wonder'' ([[1948 in literature|1948]]), set in the [[New England]] town of Wrightsville (a backdrop for several Queen novels during the 1940s), even showed the limitations of Ellery's methods of detection. The [[1950s]] and [[1960s]] showed more experimental work, with one of the last novels to feature Ellery, ''[[And on the Eighth Day]]'' ([[1964 in literature|1964]]), being a religious allegory touching on [[fascism]].

During the 1940s, Ellery Queen was probably the most popular American mystery writer.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UjgE_CRiIW4C&q=%22ellery+queen%22&pg=PA161 |title=Herbert, ''Who's Who in Crime'', p.161 |isbn=9780195157611 |access-date=2012-02-21|last1=Herbert |first1=Rosemary |year=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref><ref name=":2" /> More than 150 million copies of Queen's books were sold globally and 'he' remained the best-selling mystery writer in [[Japan]] till the end of the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grossberger |first=Lewis |date=1978-03-16 |title=Ellery Queen |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/03/16/ellery-queen/e39b7102-5943-440b-8016-347875aaebda/ |access-date=2023-09-19 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>[https://www.proquest.com/openview/631c175d6cfda8a428ade6888f4c8bd8/1 Image: Dannay and Lee, 1967]</ref>

Although some of the middle-period novels, especially ''[[Calamity Town]]'' and ''[[Cat of Many Tails]]'' (an early serial killer novel), are considered classics, some criticize the combination of religious symbolism and detection in the later Queens as clumsy and pretentious.{{Unreferenced|date=April 2007}} Several of the later novels featuring Ellery Queen the detective were [[ghostwriter|ghost-written]], or at least ghost-collaborated, by [[science fiction]] writers [[Theodore Sturgeon]] and [[Avram Davidson]].

Many short stories were also published under the Queen name, which were mostly well-received. The novelist and critic [[Julian Symons]] called them "as absolutely fair and totally puzzling as the most passionate devotee of orthodoxy could wish" and said they were "composed with wonderful skill"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Symons |first=Julian |title=Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel |publisher=Mysterious Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0892964963 |edition=3rd |pages=181}}</ref> whereas the historian [[Jacques Barzun|Jaques Barzun]] said they were "full of ingenious gimmicks and adorned with excellent titles".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Barzun |first1=Jaques |url=https://archive.org/details/catalogueofcrime00barz |title=A Catalogue of Crime |last2=Taylor |first2=Wendell Hertig |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1989 |isbn=9780060157968 |edition=2nd |pages=665}}</ref>

Towards the end of their careers, the cousins also produced novels, mainly original paperbacks, written by various people under the Ellery Queen name that did not feature the character Ellery Queen as the protagonist. These included three novels featuring the [[governor]]'s "troubleshooter" Mike McCall: ''[[The Campus Murders]]'' ([[1969 in literature|1969]], written by [[Gil Brewer]]); ''[[The Black Hearts Murder]]'' ([[1970 in literature|1970]], written by [[Richard Deming]]); and ''[[The Blue Movie Murders]]'' ([[1972 in literature|1972]], written by [[Edward D. Hoch]]). The prominent science-fiction writer [[Jack Vance]] also wrote three of these original paperbacks, including the [[locked room mystery]] ''A Room to Die In''.

Dannay, without much involvement from Lee, founded the crime fiction magazine ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' in 1941, and served as its [[editor-in-chief]] until his death in 1982. However, they together edited numerous collections and anthologies of crime fiction such as ''[[The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' and ''101 Years' Entertainment, The Great Detective Stories, 1841–1941.'' They were awarded the [[MWA Grand Master Award|Grand Master Award]] by the [[Mystery Writers of America]] in 1961 for their work under the Ellery Queen pseudonym.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Nevins |first=Francis M. |title=Royal bloodline: Ellery Queen, author and detective |publisher=Bowling Green University Popular Press |year=1974 |isbn=978-0892964963}}</ref><ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Mitgang |first=Herbert |date=1988-03-05 |title=Ellery Queen's 'Double Lives' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/05/books/ellery-queen-s-double-lives.html |access-date=2023-09-20 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

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From 1961 onwards, they allowed the 'Ellery Queen' ''nom de plume'' to be used as a [[Pen name#Collective names|house name]] for several crime thrillers written by other authors. Dannay had initially opposed this project but was eventually persuaded by Lee, who was in financial difficulty at that time and wanted the extra royalties it would bring. The editing and supervision of these thrillers was done almost entirely by Lee; Dannay refused to even read these books.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Nevins |first=Francis M. |title=The Art of Detection: The Story of how Two Fractious Cousins Reshaped the Modern Detective Novel. |publisher=Perfect Crime Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-1935797470}}</ref>

==Radio and television==

On radio, ''[[The Adventures of Ellery Queen (radio)|The Adventures of Ellery Queen]]'' was heard on all three networks from 1939 to 1948. During the 1970s, syndicated radio fillers, ''Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries'', began with an announcer saying, "This is Ellery Queen..." and would go on to describe a case in one minute. The radio station would then encourage callers to try to solve the mystery and win a sponsor's prize. Once they got a winner, the solution part of the spot would be played as confirmation.

None of the ghostwritten novels feature Ellery Queen as a character. Three of them star "the governor's troubleshooter" Micah "Mike" McCall and six of them feature Captain Tim Corrigan of the [[NYPD|New York City Police Department]]. The prominent science-fiction writer [[Jack Vance]] wrote three such novels including the 1965 [[locked room mystery]] ''A Room to Die In''.<ref name=":1" />

[[Helene Hanff]], best-known for her book ''[[84 Charing Cross Road]]'', was a scripter for the [[television series]] version of ''[[The Adventures of Ellery Queen]]'' (1950-52), which began on the [[DuMont Television Network]] but soon moved to [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. Shortly after the series began, [[Lee Hart]], who played Queen, died and was replaced in the lead role by [[Lee Bowman]]. The series returned to DuMont in 1954 with [[Hugh Marlowe]] in the title role. [[George Nader]] then played Queen in ''The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen'' (1958-59), but he was replaced with [[Lee Philips]] in the final episodes.

Dannay and Lee remained reticent about their writing methods.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Shenker |first=Israel |date=1969-02-22 |title=Ellery Queen Won't Tell How It's Done |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/02/22/archives/ellery-queen-wont-tell-how-its-done.html |access-date=2023-09-23 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Novelist and critic [[H. R. F. Keating|H.R.F. Keating]] wrote, "How actually did they do it? Did they sit together and hammer the stuff out word by word? Did one write the dialogue and the other the narration? ... What eventually happened was that Fred Dannay, in principle, produced the plots, the clues, and what would have to be deduced from them as well as the outlines of the characters and Manfred Lee clothed it all in words. But it is unlikely to have been as clear cut as that."<ref name="KEAT">{{Cite book |last=Keating |first=H.R.F. |title=The Bedside Companion to Crime |publisher=Mysterious Press |year=1989 |isbn=0-89296-416-2 |___location=New York |pages=181–182}}</ref>

[[Peter Lawford]] starred in the [[television movie]] ''Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You'' (1971). The 1975 television movie ''Ellery Queen'' led into the 1975-76 [[Ellery Queen (TV series)|''Ellery Queen'' television series]] starring [[Jim Hutton]] in the [[title role]] (with [[David Wayne]] as his widowed father). Each episode would end with Queen breaking the [[fourth wall]] to go over the facts of the case and invite the audience to solve the mystery on their own.

According to the crime fiction critic [[Otto Penzler]], "As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a historical personage. Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, after [[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]], the most important American in mystery fiction."<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Roseman |first1=Mill |title=Detectionary: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Characters in Mystery Fiction |last2=Penzler |first2=Otto |date=June 7, 1977 |publisher=Overlook Press}}</ref>

==Movies==

*''The Spanish Cape Mystery'' (1935) Donald Cook as Ellery Queen, Guy Usher as Inspector Queen (based on The Spanish Cape Mystery)

*''The Mandarin Mystery'' (1936) Eddie Quillan as Ellery Queen, Wade Boteler as Inspector Queen (loosely based on The Chinese Orange Mystery)

*''Ellery Queen, Master Detective'' (1940) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen

*''Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery'' (1941) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen

*''Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring'' (1941) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen

*''Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime'' (1941) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen

*''Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen'' (1942) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen

*''A Close Call for Ellery Queen'' (1942) William Gargan as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen

*''A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen'' (1942) William Gargan as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen

*''La Décade prodigieuse'' (1971) (English title, Ten Days' Wonder) directed by Claude Chabrol (based on Ten Days' Wonder, but not containing Ellery Queen or any detective character)

British crime novelist [[Margery Allingham]] said that Dannay and Lee had "done far more for the detective story than any other two men put together" and critic [[Anthony Berkeley Cox]] famously quoted "Ellery Queen ''is'' the American Detective Novel".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ellery Queen |url=https://www.worlds-best-detective-crime-and-murder-mystery-books.com/ellery_queen.html |access-date=2023-09-19 |website=World's Best Detective, Crime, and Murder Mystery Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Queen, Ellery {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/queen-ellery |access-date=2023-09-19 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>

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The character of "Nikki Porter" is seen first in films and does not appear in novels/short stories until the final pages of ''There Was An Old Woman'' (1943), when a character with whom Ellery has had some flirtatious moments announces spontaneously that she's changing her name to Nikki Porter and going to work as Ellery's secretary. Nikki Porter appears sporadically thereafter in novels and stories, perhaps in an attempt to link the movies' love interest (1940-1942) into the written canon.

Although Dannay outlived Lee by eleven years, the Ellery Queen ''nom de plume'' died with Lee. The last novel featuring the character Ellery Queen, ''A Fine and Private Place'', was published in 1971, the year of Lee's death.<ref name="Hubin2" /> However, ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is still in print, now published as six "double issues" per year by [[Dell Magazines]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Current Issue |url=http://www.elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/current-issue/ |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=Ellery Queen |language=en-US}}</ref>

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==Barnaby Ross==

In 1932 and 1933, Dannay and Lee wrote four novels using the pseudonym Barnaby Ross featuring [[Drury Lane (character)|Drury Lane]], a [[William Shakespeare|Shakespearean]] actor who had retired from the stage due to deafness and is now often consulted as an amateur detective. The novels also feature Inspector Thumm (initially as a member of the [[New York Police Department|New York police]], later as a [[private investigator]]) and his crime-solving daughter Patience. From the 1940s, republications of the Drury Lane books were mostly under the Ellery Queen name.<ref name=":5" />

In the early 1930s, before their identity as the authors behind Ellery Queen and Barnaby Ross had been made public, Dannay and Lee staged a series of public debates with Lee impersonating Queen and Dannay impersonating Ross, both of them wearing masks to preserve their anonymity. According to H.R.F. Keating, "People said Ross must be the wit and critic [[Alexander Woollcott]] and Queen [must be] [[S. S. Van Dine|S.S. Van Dine]], creator of the super-snob detective [[Philo Vance]], on whom 'Ellery Queen' was indeed modeled."<ref name="KEAT" />

In the 1960s, Dannay and Lee allowed the Barnaby Ross name to be used as a pseudonym for a series of historical romance novels by the writer Don Tracy.<ref name=":5" /><ref name="Clarke">{{Cite book |author=Joseph F. Clarke |title=Pseudonyms: The Names Behind the Names |date=1977 |publisher=BCA |page=142}}</ref>

==Fictional style==

The Queen novels are examples of "fair play" mysteries, a subgenre of the [[whodunit]] mystery in which the reader obtains the clues along with the detective and the mysteries are presented as intellectually challenging puzzles. These types of novels comprised what would later be known as the [[Golden age of detective fiction]] (Usually dated from 1920 to 1940 but some critics include the 1940s and even the 1950s).<ref name="Hubin2" /> Mystery writer [[John Dickson Carr]] called this subgenre "the grandest game in the world".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Carr |first1=John Dickson |title=The Door to Doom |publisher=International Polygonics Ltd. |year=1991 |isbn=978-1558821026 |editor-last=Greene |editor-first=Douglas G.}}</ref>

The first Ellery Queen book ''The Roman Hat Mystery'' established a reliable template: a geographic formula title (''The Dutch Shoe Mystery'', ''The Egyptian Cross Mystery'', etc.); an unusual crime; a complex series of clues and [[red herring]]s; multiple misdirected solutions before the final correct solution is revealed, and a cast of supporting characters including Ellery Queen, the detective, Queen's father Inspector Richard Queen and his irascible assistant Sergeant Thomas Velie. What became the best known part of the early Ellery Queen books was the "Challenge to the Reader", a single page near the end of the book, on which Queen, the detective, paused the narrative, directly addressed the reader, declared that they had now seen all the clues needed to solve the mystery, and only one solution was possible. According to Julian Symons, "The rare distinction of the books is that this claim is accurate. These are problems in deduction that do really permit of only one answer, and there are few crime stories indeed of which this can be said... Judged as exercises in rational deduction, these are certainly among the best detective stories ever written."<ref name="SYM">{{Cite book |last=Symons |first=Julian |title=Bloody murder; from the detective story to the crime novel |publisher=Mysterious Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0892964963 |edition=3rd |___location= |pages=127–128}}</ref>

[[File:Challenge to the reader.png|thumb|429x429px|"Challenge to the Reader" in ''[[The Greek Coffin Mystery]]'']]

In many earlier books like ''The Greek Coffin Mystery'' and ''The Siamese Twin Mystery'', multiple solutions to the mystery are proposed, a feature that also showed up in later books such as ''Double, Double'' and ''Ten Days' Wonder''. Queen's "false solution, followed by the true" became a hallmark of the canon. Another stylistic element in many early books (notably ''The Dutch Shoe Mystery'', ''The French Powder Mystery'' and ''Halfway House'') is Queen's method of creating a list of attributes (the murderer is male, the murderer smokes a pipe, etc.) and comparing each suspect to these attributes, thereby reducing the list of suspects to a single name, often an unlikely one.<ref name="SS1">{{cite web| last=Andrews|first=Dale| title=If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium| url=http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2011/11/if-its-tuesday-this-must-be-belgium-or.html| publisher=SleuthSayers| date=2011-11-08| ___location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref><ref name=":2" />

By the late 1930s, when Ellery Queen, the fictional character, had moved to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] to try movie scriptwriting, the tone of the novels changed along with the detective's character. Romance was introduced, solutions began to involve more psychological elements, and the "Challenge to the Reader" vanished. The novels also shifted from mere puzzles to more introspective themes. The three novels set in the fictional [[New England]] town of Wrightsville even showed the limitations of Queen's methods of detection. Julian Symons said "Ellery... occasionally lost his father, as his exploits took place more frequently in the small town of Wrightsville... where his arrival as a house guest was likely to be the signal for the commission of one or more murders. Very intelligently, Dannay and Lee used this change in locale to loosen the structure of their stories. More emphasis was placed on personal relationships and less on the details of investigation."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Symons |first=Julian |title=Bloody murder; from the detective story to the crime novel |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=1972 |isbn=0-571-09465-1 |edition=1st |___location=London |pages=149–150}}</ref>

In the 1950s and the 1960s, Dannay and Lee became more experimental, especially in the novels they wrote with other writers. ''The Player on the Other Side'' (1963), ghost-written with [[Theodore Sturgeon]], delves more deeply into motive than most Queen novels. ''And on the Eighth Day'' (1964), ghost-written with [[Avram Davidson]], is a religious allegory about [[fascism]].<ref name="Hubin2">{{Cite book |last=Hubin |first=Allen J. |title=Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography |publisher=Garland |year=1984 |isbn=0-8240-9219-8}}</ref>

==Ellery Queen, the fictional character==

{{Infobox character

| name = Ellery Queen

| series =

| image = Jim Hutton Ellery Queen 1976.JPG

| caption = [[Jim Hutton]] as Ellery Queen

| first = ''[[The Roman Hat Mystery]]''

| last = ''A Fine and Private Place''

| creator = Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee (writing as Ellery Queen)

| portrayer = [[Donald Cook (actor)|Donald Cook]]<br>[[Eddie Quillan]]<br>[[Ralph Bellamy]]<br>[[Hugh Marlowe]]<br>[[Carleton G. Young]]<br>Sydney Smith<br>[[William Gargan]]<br>[[Lawrence Dobkin]]<br>[[Howard Culver]]<br>[[Richard Hart (actor)|Richard Hart]]<br>[[Lee Bowman]]<br>[[George Nader]]<br>[[Lee Philips]]<br>[[Bill Owen (writer and announcer)|Bill Owen]]<br>[[Peter Lawford]]<br>[[Jim Hutton]]

| gender = Male

| occupation = Amateur detective, Author

| nationality = American

| family = Richard Queen (father)

| first_date = 1929

| last_date = 1971

}}

Ellery Queen, the fictional character, is the hero of more than thirty novels and several short story collections, written by Dannay and Lee and published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym. The creation of Queen was probably inspired by [[Philo Vance]], the detective created by the writer [[S. S. Van Dine|S.S. Van Dine]].<ref name=":5" /> According to the critic H.R.F. Keating, "Later the cousins [Dannay and Lee] took a sharper view of Vance, Manfred Lee calling him, with typical vehemence, 'the biggest prig that ever came down the pike'."<ref name="KEAT" />

As Van Dine had done earlier with Philo Vance, Dannay and Lee gave Ellery Queen an extremely elaborate back story that was rarely mentioned after the first few novels. In fact, Queen goes through several transformations in his personality and his approach to investigation over the course of the series.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

In the earlier novels, he is a snobbish [[Harvard University|Harvard]]-educated intellectual of independent means who wears [[pince-nez]] glasses and investigates crimes because he finds them stimulating. He supposedly derives these characteristics from his unnamed late mother, the daughter of an [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocratic]] New York family, who had married Richard Queen, a bluff and short [[Police officer|policeman]].<ref name=":2" />

Beginning in the 1938 novel ''[[The Four of Hearts]]'', he spends some time working in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] as a screenwriter. Soon, he has a slick façade, is part of Hollywood society and hobnobs comfortably with the wealthy and the famous. Beginning with ''[[Calamity Town]]'' in 1942, he becomes less of a cypher and more of a human being, often becoming emotionally affected by the people in his cases, and at one point quitting detective work altogether. ''Calamity Town'' and some other novels during this period are set in the imaginary town of Wrightsville, where subsidiary characters recur from story to story as Queen relates to the various strata of American society as an outsider.<ref name=":2" />

However, after his Hollywood and Wrightsville periods, he returns to his New York City roots for the rest of his career, and is then seen again as an ultra-logical crime solver who remains distant from his cases. In the very late novels, he often seems a near-faceless, near-characterless persona whose role is purely to solve the mystery. So striking are the differences between the different periods of the Ellery Queen character that [[Julian Symons]] advanced the theory that there were two Ellery Queens — an older and younger brother.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Symons |first=Julian |title=Great detectives: Seven Original Investigations |publisher=Abrams |year=1981 |isbn=978-0810909786 |pages=66–70}}</ref>

Queen is said to be married and the father of a child in the introductions of the first few novels, but this plot line is never developed and he is portrayed as a bachelor in all of his later appearances. Nikki Porter, who acts as Queen's secretary and is something of a love interest, is first introduced in the radio series ''[[The Adventures of Ellery Queen (radio program)|The Adventures of Ellery Queen]]'' in 1939. Her first appearance in a written story is on the final pages of the 1943 novel ''[[There Was an Old Woman (novel)|There Was an Old Woman]]'', when a character with whom Queen has had some flirtatious moments suddenly announces that she will change her name to Nikki Porter and will work as Queen's secretary. Nikki Porter appears sporadically thereafter in the novels and short stories, linking the character from radio and movies to the written canon.<ref name=":1" />

Paula Paris, an [[agoraphobia|agoraphobic]] gossip columnist, is linked romantically with Queen in the 1938 novel ''The Four of Hearts'' and in some short stories in the 1940s but does not appear in the radio series or films and soon vanishes from the books. Queen is not given any serious romantic interests after Nikki Porter and Paula Paris disappear from the books.<ref name=":1" />

The Queen household, an apartment on West 87th street in New York City, is shared by Ellery Queen and his widowed father, Richard Queen. (Very late in the series, Richard Queen remarries, but how this affects his living arrangement is never spelled out.) The household also contains a houseboy named Djuna in the earlier novels. Possibly of [[Romani people|Roma]] origin, Djuna appears periodically in the canon, apparently ageless and family-free, in a supporting role as cook, receiver of parcels, valet, and occasional comedy relief. He is the protagonist in most of the juvenile novels ghost-written under the pseudonym Ellery Queen Jr.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":5" />

==In other media==

===Radio===

The radio series ''[[The Adventures of Ellery Queen (radio program)|The Adventures of Ellery Queen]]'' was broadcast on several networks from 1939 to 1948 with the lead role played by [[Hugh Marlowe]] (1939–1940), [[Carleton G. Young|Carleton Young]] (1942–1943), Sydney Smith (1943–1947), [[Lawrence Dobkin]] (1947–48) and [[Howard Culver]] (1948). All episodes in this series were paused just before the end to allow a panel of celebrities a chance to solve the mystery.<ref name="dunningota">{{Cite book |last=Dunning |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/Biblio-1998-USA-John-Dunning-The-Encyclopedia-of-Old-Time-Radio/page/8/mode/1up |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |pages=8–9}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite book |last1=Nevins |first1=Francis M. |title=The Sound of Detection: Ellery Queen's Adventures in Radio |last2=Grams |first2=Martin Jr. |publisher=OTR Publishing |year=2002 |isbn=0-9703310-2-9 |edition=2nd}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Harmon |first=Jim |url=https://archive.org/details/greatradioheroes00harm/mode/2up |title=The great radio heroes |year=1967 |pages=145–148|publisher=Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ellery Queen's radio plays - page 1 - Season 1 (part 1) |url=http://queen.spaceports.com/EQ_radioplays__page_01.htm |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=queen.spaceports.com}}</ref> Some of the surviving scripts were published for the first time in the 2005 book ''The Adventure of the Murdered Moths.''<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries |publisher=Crippen & Landru |year=2005 |isbn=9781932009156}}</ref>

Between 1965 and 1967, ''Ellery Queen's Minute Mysteries'' were broadcast as [[Filler (media)|radio fillers]]. They began with the radio announcer [[Bill Owen (writer and announcer)|Bill Owen]] saying "This is Ellery Queen..." and contained a short one-minute case.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ellery Queen's radio plays - page 13 - Minute mysteries |url=http://queen.spaceports.com/EQ_radioplays__page_13.htm |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=queen.spaceports.com}}</ref>

===Television===

[[File:George Nader Marian Seldes Further Adventures of Ellery Queen 1959.JPG|thumb|George Nader as Ellery Queen and [[Marian Seldes]] in the television program ''The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen''.]]

Some of the scripts of the television series ''[[The Adventures of Ellery Queen]]'' (1950–1951 on [[DuMont Television Network|Dumont]], 1951-1952 on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]) were written by [[Helene Hanff]], best known for her 1970 novel ''[[84, Charing Cross Road]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=1997-04-11 |title=Helene Hanff, Wry Epistler Of '84 Charing,' Dies at 80 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/11/arts/helene-hanff-wry-epistler-of-84-charing-dies-at-80.html |access-date=2023-09-18 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Shortly after the series began, [[Richard Hart (actor)|Richard Hart]], who played Queen, died and was replaced by [[Lee Bowman]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=CTVA Crime - "The Adventures of Ellery Queen" (Dumont/ABC) Richard Hart/Lee Bowman |url=https://ctva.biz/US/Crime/ElleryQueen_1950-52.htm |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=ctva.biz}}</ref>

In 1954, Norvin Productions produced the [[Broadcast syndication|syndicated]] series ''Ellery Queen, Detective'' with [[Hugh Marlowe]] as the title character. Episodes from this series were broadcast on many local American stations and in [[UK|United Kingdom]] between 1954 and 1959 under various titles like ''Mystery Is My Business'', ''Crime Detective'' and ''New Adventures of Ellery Queen.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=CTVA Crime "Ellery Queen, Detective" (TPA)(1954) starring Hugh Marlowe |url=https://ctva.biz/US/Crime/ElleryQueen_1954.htm |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=ctva.biz}}</ref>

[[George Nader]] played Queen in [[NBC]]'s ''[[The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen]]'' (1958–1959), but was replaced by [[Lee Philips]] in the final episodes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CTVA US Crime - "The Adventures of Ellery Queen" (NBC)(1958-59) George Nader/Lee Phillips |url=https://ctva.biz/US/Crime/ElleryQueen_1958-59.htm |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=ctva.biz}}</ref>

[[Peter Lawford]] starred as Ellery Queen in the 1971 television film ''[[Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You]] (''a loose adaptation of the 1949 novel ''[[Cat of Many Tails]])''. [[Harry Morgan]] played Inspector Richard Queen in this film, but he is described as Ellery Queen's uncle (perhaps to account for the fact that Morgan was only eight years Lawford's senior, or to account for Lawford's British accent).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/ellery-queen-dont-look-behind-you | title=Ellery Queen Don't Look Behind You (1971) }}</ref>

The 1975 television movie ''Ellery Queen'' (aka ''Too Many Suspects'', a loose adaptation of the 1965 novel ''The Fourth Side of the Triangle'') led to the [[Ellery Queen (TV series)|1975&ndash;1976 television series of the same name]] starring [[Jim Hutton]] in the title role with [[David Wayne]] as his widowed father Richard Queen. This series was developed by [[Richard Levinson]] and [[William Link]], who later won a [[Edgar Award|Special Edgars Award]] for creating it and ''[[Columbo]]''.<ref>''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, 1946–present'', Brooks and Marsh, 1979, {{ISBN|0-345-28248-5}}</ref> It was done as a period piece set in New York City in 1946–1947.<ref>Multiple sources:

*https://archive.org/details/ellery-queen

*https://archive.org/details/ElleryQueenSeries

</ref> Sergeant Velie, Inspector Queen's assistant, regularly appeared in it; he had previously appeared in the novels and the radio series, but had not been seen regularly in any of the previous television versions. Each episode contained a "Challenge to the Viewer" in which Queen broke the [[fourth wall]] to go over the facts of the case and encouraged the audience to try to solve the mystery before the correct solution was revealed. [[Eve Arden]], [[George Burns]], [[Joan Collins]], [[Roddy McDowall]], [[Milton Berle]], [[Guy Lombardo]], [[Rudy Vallée]], and [[Don Ameche]] were among the celebrities featured in this series.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CTVA US Crime - "Ellery Queen" (Universal/NBC)(1975-76) Jim Hutton, David Wayne |url=https://ctva.biz/US/Crime/ElleryQueen_1975-76.htm |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=ctva.biz}}</ref>

In 2011, in an episode of the crime series [[Leverage (American TV series)|''Leverage'']], “[[List of Leverage episodes|The 10 Li'l Grifters Job]]”, [[Timothy Hutton]]'s character Nate Ford appears at a murder mystery party dressed as Ellery Queen, in a homage to the actor's late father, Jim Hutton.<ref>{{Cite web |last=LisaM |date=2011-07-04 |title=Review: Leverage, S4, E2 - "The 10 Li'l Grifters Job" - Your Entertainment Corner |url=https://www.yourentertainmentcorner.com/review-leverage-s4-e2-the-10-lil-grifters-job/ |access-date=2023-09-28 |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Films===

*''[[The Spanish Cape Mystery (film)|The Spanish Cape Mystery]]'' (1935) - [[Donald Cook (actor)|Donald Cook]] as Ellery Queen, [[Guy Usher]] as Inspector Queen (based on ''The Spanish Cape Mystery'')<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/TheSpanishCapeMystery1935 | title=The Spanish Cape Mystery | year=1935 }}</ref>

*''[[The Mandarin Mystery]]'' (1936) - [[Eddie Quillan]] as Ellery Queen, [[Wade Boteler]] as Inspector Queen (loosely based on ''The Chinese Orange Mystery'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/TheMandarinMystery|title=The Mandarin Mystery<!-- |first=Victor Zobel|last=Nat Levine| -->date=29 November 2018| year=1936 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

*''[[Ellery Queen, Master Detective]]'' (1940) - [[Ralph Bellamy]] as Ellery Queen, [[Margaret Lindsay]] as Nikki Porter, [[Charley Grapewin]] as Inspector Queen (very loosely based on ''The Door Between'')<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kill as directed: Other Media part 5 ...movies (1) |url=http://queen.spaceports.com/Other%20Media_5.html |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=queen.spaceports.com}}</ref>

*''[[Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery]]'' (1941) - Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen<ref>{{Citation |title=Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941) |url=http://archive.org/details/ellery-queens-penthouse-mystery-1941 |access-date=2023-09-28}}</ref>

*''[[Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime]]'' (1941) - Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen (loosely based on ''The Devil To Pay'')<ref>{{Citation |title=Ellery Queen And The Perfect Crime (1941) |url=http://archive.org/details/ellery-queen-and-the-perfect-crime-1941 |access-date=2023-09-28}}</ref>

*''[[Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring]]'' (1941) - Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen (loosely based on ''The Dutch Shoe Mystery'')<ref>{{cite web |author1=Scott Lord Mystery |title=Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (Hogan, 1941) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONVS9UqXLxI |website=youtube |date=30 November 2021 |access-date=28 June 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

*''[[A Close Call for Ellery Queen]]'' (1942) - [[William Gargan]] as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen<ref>{{Citation |title=Close Call For Ellery Queen (1942) |url=http://archive.org/details/close-call-for-ellery-queen-1942 |access-date=2023-09-28}}</ref>

*''[[A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen]]'' (1942) - William Gargan as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen

*''[[Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen]]'' (1942) - William Gargan as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen

*''[[Ten Days' Wonder (film)|La Décade prodigieuse]]'' (1971) (English title: ''Ten Days' Wonder'') - directed by [[Claude Chabrol]] and starring [[Anthony Perkins]] and [[Orson Welles]]. There is no character named Ellery Queen but [[Michel Piccoli]] plays Paul Regis, the detective (Based on ''Ten Days' Wonder'')<ref>{{Cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |date=1972-04-27 |title=Screen: Chabrol Misses:' Ten Days' Wonder' Has Orson Welles in Lead |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/27/archives/screen-chabrol-misses-ten-days-wonder-has-orson-welles-in-lead.html |access-date=2023-09-25 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

*''Haitatsu sarenai santsu no tegami'' (1979) (English title: ''The Three Undelivered Letters'') - directed by [[Yoshitarō Nomura]] (based on ''[[Calamity Town]]'' but not containing Queen or any other detective)<ref>{{Citation |last=Nomura |first=Yoshitarô |title=Haitatsu sarenai santsu no tegami |date=1980-12-05 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204360/ |type=Drama, Mystery |access-date=2023-09-25 |others=Shin Saburi, Nobuko Otowa, Mayumi Ogawa |publisher=Shochiku}}</ref>

===Theater===

In 1936, Dannay and Lee, in collaboration with playwright Lowell Brentano, wrote the play ''Danger, Men Working''. The production never made it to Broadway, closing after a few performances in Baltimore and Philadelphia.<ref name=":5" />

In 1949, novelist and playwright [[William Roos (writer)|William Roos]] adapted the 1938 novel ''[[The Four of Hearts]]'' for stage, although it is not known if it was ever performed.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Lachman, Marvin |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/903807427 |title=The villainous stage : crime plays on Broadway and in the West End |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-9534-4 |oclc=903807427}}</ref>

In 2016, American playwright Joseph Goodrich adapted the 1942 novel ''[[Calamity Town]]'' for stage. The play premiered at the Vertigo Theatre in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]] on January 23, 2016.<ref name="premiere">{{cite news |last=Hobson |first=Louis B. |date=2016-01-29 |title=Vertigo brings Ellery Queen to Calgary stage with Calamity Town |work=[[Calgary Herald]] |url=https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/theatre/vertigo-brings-ellery-queen-to-calary-stage-with-calamity-town}}</ref>

===Comic books and graphic novels===

[[File:Ellery Queen in Case Closed.jpg|thumb|Queen, the character, as he appears in the English issue of volume 11 of the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' manga]]Ellery Queen appears as a character in some issues of ''Crackajack Funnies'' beginning in 1940, a four issue series by ''Superior Comics'' in 1949, two issues of a short-lived series by [[Ziff Davis]] in 1952, and three comics published by Dell in 1962.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kill as directed: Other Media part 8 ...comics (1) |url=http://queen.spaceports.com/Other%20Media_8.html |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=queen.spaceports.com}}</ref>

In February 1990, Queen was used as a guest star by the comic book writer [[Mike W. Barr]] in the ninth issue of the magazine ''[[Maze Agency]]'' in the story titled ''The English Channeler Mystery: A Problem in Deduction''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Maze Agency #9 - The English Channeler Mystery (Issue) |url=https://comicvine.gamespot.com/the-maze-agency-9-the-english-channeler-mystery/4000-211472/ |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=Comic Vine |language=en}}</ref>

In July 1996, Queen, the character, was highlighted in the ''Gosho Aoyoma's Mystery Library'' section of volume 11 of the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' manga, a section of the series in which [[Gosho Aoyama|Aoyoma]] introduces a detective (or occasionally a villain) from mystery literature. A character also stated that he preferred Queen, the author, to [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] in volume 12 of the manga.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Detective Picture Book - Detective Conan Wiki |url=https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Detective_Picture_Book |access-date=2023-09-25 |website=www.detectiveconanworld.com}}</ref>

===Board games and jigsaw puzzles===

Ellery Queen's name was attached to many games and puzzles including (''Ellery Queen's Great Mystery Game) Trapped'' in 1956, ''The Case of the Elusive Assassin by Ellery Queen'' in 1967,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amazon.com: The Case of the Elusive Assassin - An Ellery Queen Mystery Game - Ideal 1967 : Toys & Games |url=https://www.amazon.com/Case-Elusive-Assassin-Ellery-Mystery/dp/B007H2JM2Q |website=www.amazon.com}}</ref> ''Ellery Queen: The Case of His Headless Highness'' in 1973, ''[[Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Game]]'' in 1986 and a [[VCR]]-based game called ''[[Ellery Queen's Operation: Murder]]'' (loosely based on ''[[The Dutch Shoe Mystery]]'') in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kill as directed: Other Media part 11 ... games |url=http://queen.spaceports.com/Other%20Media_11.html |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=queen.spaceports.com}}</ref>

=== Stamps ===

Queen, the character, was one of the twelve fictional detectives featured on a series of stamps issued by [[Nicaragua]] in 1973 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of [[Interpol]]<ref>{{cite web |date=1972-11-13 |title=Philatelic web page accessed September 29, 2007 |url=http://www.trussel.com/detfic/nicarag.htm |access-date=2012-02-21 |publisher=Trussel.com}}</ref> and on a similar series issued by [[San Marino]] in 1979.<ref>{{cite web |date=1979-07-12 |title=Philatelic Web site accessed September 29, 2007 |url=http://www.trussel.com/detfic/sanmarin.htm#Queen |access-date=2012-02-21 |publisher=Trussel.com}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==

'Ellery Queen' received the following [[Edgar Award]]s from the Mystery Writers of America:

* 1946: Best Radio Drama (tied with ''[[Mr. and Mrs. North|Mr and Mrs North]]'')<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/46-OCR/1946-07-15-BC-OCR-Page-0091.pdf Broadcasting. July 15, 1946. p. 91]</ref>

* 1950: Special Edgar Award for ten years' service through ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''

* 1961: Grand Master Edgar Award

* 1969: Special Edgar Award on the 40th anniversary of the publication of ''[[The Roman Hat Mystery]]''

They were also runners-up for the Edgar in the following categories:

* 1962: Best Short Story (''Ellery Queen 1962 Anthology'')

* 1964: Best Novel (''The Player on the Other Side'')

The Mystery Writers of America established the Ellery Queen Award in 1983 "to honor writing teams and outstanding people in the mystery-publishing industry".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mysterywriters.org/pages/awards/queen.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226081847/http://mysterywriters.org/pages/awards/queen.htm|url-status=dead|title=Mystery Writers of America website, accessed September 29 2007|archive-date=February 26, 2008}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Novels===

*''The Roman Hat Mystery'' - 1929

*''The French Powder Mystery'' - 1930

*''The Dutch Shoe Mystery'' - 1931

*''[[The Greek Coffin Mystery]]'' - 1932

*''The Egyptian Cross Mystery'' - 1932

*''The American Gun Mystery'' - 1933

*''The Siamese Twin Mystery'' - 1933

*''[[The Chinese Orange Mystery]]'' - 1934

*''The Spanish Cape Mystery'' - 1935

*''Halfway House'' - 1936

*''The Door Between'' - 1937

*''The Devil to Pay'' - 1938

*''The Four of Hearts'' - 1938

*''The Dragon's Teeth'' - 1939

*''[[Calamity Town]]'' - 1942

*''There Was an Old Woman'' - 1943

*''The Murderer Is a Fox'' - 1945

*''Ten Days' Wonder'' - 1948

*''[[Cat of Many Tails]]'' - 1949

*''Double, Double'' - 1950

*''The Origin of Evil'' - 1951

*''The King Is Dead'' - 1952

*''The Scarlet Letters'' - 1953

*''The Glass Village'' - 1954 (neither Ellery Queen nor Inspector Queen in book)

*''Inspector Queen's Own Case'' - 1956 (Inspector Queen only)

*''The Finishing Stroke'' - 1958

*''The Player on The Other Side'' - 1963 (ghost-written with Theodore Sturgeon)

*''And on The Eighth Day'' - 1964 (ghost-written with Avram Davidson)

*''The Fourth Side of The Triangle'' - 1965 (ghost-written with Avram Davidson)

*''A Study In Terror'' - 1966 ([[Sherlock Holmes]] part written by [[Paul W. Fairman]])

*''Face to Face'' - 1967

*''The House of Brass'' - 1968 (ghost-written with Avram Davidson)

*''Cop Out'' - 1969 (neither Ellery Queen nor Inspector Queen in book)

*''The Last Woman in His Life'' - 1970

*''A Fine and Private Place'' - 1971

and many more

====By Dannay and Lee====

===Juvenile Novels attributed to Ellery Queen, Jr.===

Unless noted, all these titles feature Ellery Queen and Inspector Richard Queen as characters.<ref name=":5" /><ref name="Hubin2" />

(ghosted by various authors, including Frank Belknap Long, Samuel Duff McCoy, and James Clark Carlisle, Jr.)

*''The Back Dog Mystery'' - 1941 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)

*''[[The GoldenRoman EagleHat Mystery]]'' - 1942—1929

*''[[The GreenFrench TurtlePowder Mystery]]'' - 1944—1930

*''[[The RedDutch ChipmunkShoe Mystery]]'' - 1946 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)—1931

*''[[The BrownGreek FoxCoffin Mystery]]'' - 1948 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)—1932

*''[[The WhiteEgyptian ElephantCross Mystery]]'' - 1950 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)—1932

*''[[The YellowAmerican CatGun Mystery]]'' - 1952 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)—1933

*''[[The BlueSiamese HerringTwin Mystery]]'' - 1954 (ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy)—1933

*''[[The MysteryChinese ofOrange the Merry MagicianMystery]]'' - 1954—1934

*''[[The MysterySpanish ofCape the Vanished VictimMystery]]'' - 1954—1935

*''[[Halfway House (novel)|Halfway House]]''—1936

*''The Purple Bird Mystery'' - 1966

*''[[The Door Between]]''—1937

*''[[The Devil To Pay (1938 novel)|The Devil to Pay]]''—1938

*''[[The Four of Hearts]]''—1938

*''[[The Dragon's Teeth]]'' aka ''The Virgin Heiresses''—1939

*''[[Calamity Town]]''—1942

*''[[There Was an Old Woman (novel)|There Was an Old Woman]]'' aka ''The Quick and the Dead''—1943

*''[[The Murderer Is a Fox]]''—1945

*''[[Ten Days' Wonder]]''—1948

*''[[Cat of Many Tails]]''—1949

*''[[Double, Double (Ellery Queen novel)|Double, Double]]''—1950

*''[[The Origin of Evil]]''—1951

*''[[The King Is Dead (novel)|The King Is Dead]]''—1952

*''[[The Scarlet Letters]]''—1953

*''[[The Glass Village]]''—1954 (neither Ellery Queen nor Inspector Queen appear)

*''Inspector Queen's Own Case''—1956 (Ellery Queen does not appear)

*''[[The Finishing Stroke]]''—1958

*''The Player on The Other Side''—1963 (ghost-written with [[Theodore Sturgeon]])

*''And on the Eighth Day''—1964 (ghost-written with [[Avram Davidson]])

*''The Fourth Side of the Triangle''—1965 (ghost-written with Avram Davidson)

*''A Study in Terror''—1966 (collaboration with Paul W. Fairman)

*''Face to Face''—1967

*''The House of Brass''—1968 (ghost-written with Avram Davidson) (very minimal appearance by Ellery Queen)

*''Cop Out''—1969 (neither Ellery Queen nor Inspector Queen appear)

*''The Last Woman in His Life''—1970

*''A Fine and Private Place''—1971

==== By other authors ====

All ghostwriters are identified where known.<ref name=":5" /> All titles were edited and supervised by Lee except ''The Blue Movie Murders'' (1972), which was edited and supervised by Dannay after Lee's death. None of them feature Ellery Queen or Inspector Richard Queen as characters.

===== Non-Series =====

*''Dead Man's Tale'' (1961) by [[Stephen Marlowe]]

*''Death Spins The Platter'' (1962) by Richard Deming

*''Wife Or Death'' (1963) by Richard Deming

*''[[Kill As Directed]]'' (1963) by Henry Kane

*''Murder With A Past'' (1963) by Talmage Powell

*''The Four Johns'' (1964) by [[Jack Vance]]

*''Blow Hot, Blow Cold'' (1964) by Fletcher Flora

*''The Last Score'' (1964) by Charles W. Runyon

*''The Golden Goose'' (1964) by Fletcher Flora

*''A Room To Die In'' (1965) by Jack Vance

*''The Killer Touch'' (1965) by Charles W. Runyon

*''Beware the Young Stranger'' (1965) by Talmage Powell

*''The Copper Frame'' (1965) by Richard Deming

*''Shoot the Scene'' (1966) by Richard Deming

*''The Madman Theory'' (1966) by Jack Vance

*''Losers, Weepers'' (1966) by Richard Deming

*''The Devil's Cook'' (1966) by Fletcher Flora

*''Guess Who's Coming To Kill You?'' (1968) by Walt Sheldon

*''Kiss And Kill'' (1969) by Charles W. Runyon

===== Featuring Tim Corrigan =====

* ''Where Is Bianca?'' (1966) by Talmage Powell

* ''Why So Dead?'' (1966) by Richard Deming

* ''Which Way To Die?'' (1967) by Richard Deming

* ''Who Spies, Who Kills?'' (1967) by Talmage Powell

* ''How Goes The Murder?'' (1967) by Richard Deming

* ''What's In The Dark?'' (1968) by Richard Deming

===== Featuring Mike McCall (Troubleshooter series) =====

* ''[[The Campus Murders]]'' (1969) by [[Gil Brewer]]

* ''The Black Hearts Murder'' (1970) by Richard Deming

* ''The Blue Movie Murders'' (1972) by [[Edward D. Hoch|Edward Hoch]]

=== Novellas ===

By Dannay and Lee

* ''[[The Lamp Of God|The Lamp of God]]'' (1935) (first published as ''House of Haunts'' in the ''[[Detective Story Magazine]]'' in 1935, collected in the short story collection ''The New Adventures of Ellery Queen'' in 1940, and published as a standalone book in 1950)

===Short story collections===

By Dannay and Lee.

*''The Adventures of Ellery Queen'' - 1933

*''The New Adventures of Ellery Queen'' - 1940

*''The Case Book of Ellery Queen'' - 1945

*''Calendar Of Crime'' - 1952

*''Q.B.I. - Queen's Bureau of Investigation'' - 1955

*''Queen's Full'' - 1966

*''QED - Queen's Experiments In Detection'' - 1968

*''The Best Of Ellery Queen'' - 1985 one previously uncollected)

*''The Tragedy Of Errors'' - 1999 (a previously unpublished synopsis written by Dannay)

*''The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries'' - 2005

*''The Adventures of Ellery Queen''—1934

===As Barnaby Ross===

*''The New Adventures of Ellery Queen''—1940 (contains ''The Lamp of God'')

*''[[Tragedy Of X]]'' - 1932

*''The Case Book of Ellery Queen''—1945 (reprints five stories from the two previous collections but also includes three new radio scripts)

*''[[Tragedy Of Y]]'' - 1932

*''[[TragedyCalendar Ofof Z]]Crime'' - 1933—1952

*''QBI: Queen's Bureau of Investigation''—1955

*''[[Drury Lane (fictional detective)|Drury Lane]]'s Last Case'' - 1933

*''Queens Full''—1966

*''QED: Queen's Experiments In Detection''—1968

*''The Best Of Ellery Queen''—1985 (edited by [[Francis M. Nevins]])

*''The Tragedy Of Errors''—[[Crippen & Landru]], 1999 (includes a previously unpublished synopsis of a Queen novel written by Dannay and all of the previously uncollected short stories)

*''The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries''—Crippen & Landru, 2005

Collections which only contain previously collected short stories are excluded, such as ''More Adventures of Ellery Queen'' (1940).

===Historical Novels attributed to Barnaby Ross===

(all ghosted by Don Tracy)

*''Quintin Chivas'' - 1961

*''The Scrolls of Lysis'' - 1962

*''The Duke of Chaos'' - 1962

*''The Cree from Minataree'' - 1964

*''Strange Kinship'' - 1965

*''The Passionate Queen'' - 1966

=== Juvenile novels as Ellery Queen Jr. ===

===Omnibus volumes===

Manfred Lee commissioned the writers Samuel Duff McCoy and James Holding to write juvenile novels under the pseudonym Ellery Queen Jr. but they further 'sub-ghosted' the writing, "arousing the ire of Lee" and "making establishing authorship even worse".<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Queen's Bureau of Investigation: the Casebook - page 16 |url=http://queen.spaceports.com/QBI_16.html |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=queen.spaceports.com}}</ref> All the novels with a color in their title star Djuna, Queen's houseboy. The other two star Gulliver Queen, Queen's nephew.

*''The Ellery Queen Omnibus'' - 1934

*''The Ellery Queen Omnibus'' - 1936

*''Ellery Queen's Big Book'' - 1938

*''Ellery Queen's Adventure Omnibus'' - 1941

*''Ellery Queen's Mystery Parade'' - 1944

*''The Case Book of Ellery Queen'' - 1949

*''The Wrightsville Murders'' - 1956

*''The Hollywood Murders'' - 1957

*''The New York Murders'' - 1958

*''The XYZ Murders'' - 1961

*''The Bizarre Murders'' - 1962

==== Ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy and sub-ghosted by [[Frank Belknap Long]] ====

===Critical works===

*''The DetectiveBlack ShortDog Story: A BibliographyMystery'' -– 19421941

*''The Golden Eagle Mystery'' – 1942

*''Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story As Revealed by the 100 Most Important Books Published in this Field Since 1845'' - 1951

*''In the Queen's Parlor, and Other Leaves from the Editor's Notebook'' - 1957

==== Ghosted by Samuel Duff McCoy and sub-ghosted by Harold Montanye ====

* ''The Green Turtle Mystery'' – 1944

* ''The Red Chipmunk Mystery'' – 1946

* ''The Brown Fox Mystery'' – 1948

* ''The White Elephant Mystery'' – 1950

* ''The Yellow Cat Mystery'' – 1952

* ''The Blue Herring Mystery'' – 1954

==== Ghosted by James Holding ====

* ''The Mystery of the Merry Magician'' – 1954 (sub-ghosted by [[Joseph Greene (writer)|Joseph Greene]])

* ''The Mystery of the Vanished Victim'' – 1954 (sub-ghosted by [[Paul S. Newman]])

* ''The Purple Bird Mystery'' – 1966 (unknown if sub-ghosted)

=== Novelizations ===

*''The Adventure of the Murdered Millionaire'' (1941) ([[novelization]] of a radio play broadcast on June 18, 1939)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Adventure of the Murdered Millionaire - Q.B.I. |url=http://queen.spaceports.com/Books/murdered_millionaire_.html |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=queen.spaceports.com}}</ref>

*''The Last Man Club'' (1941) (novelization of a radio play broadcast on June 25, 1939)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Last Man Club - Q.B.I. |url=http://queen.spaceports.com/Books/last_man_club_.html |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=queen.spaceports.com}}</ref>

*''Ellery Queen, Master Detective'' (1941) aka ''The Vanishing Corpse'' (1968) (novelization of the [[Ellery Queen, Master Detective|movie of the same name]], which was loosely based on the novel ''[[The Door Between]]'' (1937) )

*''The Penthouse Mystery'' (1941) (novelization of the movie ''[[Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery]]'' (1941) )

*''The Perfect Crime'' (1942) (novelization of the movie ''[[Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime]]'' (1941)'','' which was loosely based on the novel ''[[The Devil to Pay (Ellery Queen novel)|The Devil to Pay]]'' (1938) )

*''A Study in Terror'' aka ''Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper'' (1966) (novelization of the [[A Study in Terror|movie of the same name]], mostly written by [[Paul W. Fairman]] with Ellery Queen added as a character by Dannay and Lee in the [[framing story]])

===Magazines===

*''Mystery League'' - 1933—1933

*''[[Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine]]''—1941 - 1941onwards

===AnthologiesNovels andas collectionsBarnaby Ross===

*''Challenge to the Reader'' - 1938

==== By Dannay and Lee ====

*''[[101 Years' Entertainment, The Great Detective Stories, 1841-1941]]'' - 1941

*''Sporting Blood: The Great Sports Detective Stories'' - 1942

*''The Tragedy of X''—1932

*''The Female of the Species: Great Women Detectives and Criminals'' - 1943

*''The MisadventuresTragedy of Sherlock HolmesY'' - 1944—1932

*''The Tragedy of Z''—1933

*''The Best Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' - 1944

*''Drury Lane's Last Case''—1933

*''Dashiell Hammett: The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories'' - 1944

*''Rogues' Gallery: The Great Criminals of Modern Fiction'' - 1945

==== By Don Tracy ====

*''To The Queen's Taste: The First Supplement to 101 Years' Entertainment, Consisting of the Best Stories Published in the First Five Years of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' - 1946

*''Quintin Chivas''&nbsp;– 1961

*''The Queen's Awards, 1946'' - 1946

*''The Scrolls of Lysis''&nbsp;– 1962

*''Dashiell Hammett: The Continental Op'' - 1945

*''The Duke of Chaos''&nbsp;– 1962

*''Dashiell Hammett: The Return of the Continental Op'' - 1945

*''The Cree from Minataree''&nbsp;– 1964

*''Dashiell Hammett: Hammett Homicides'' - 1946

*''Strange Kinship''&nbsp;– 1965

*''Murder By Experts'' - 1947

*''The Passionate Queen's Awards, 1947'' -&nbsp;– 19471966

*''Dashiell Hammett: Dead Yellow Women'' - 1947

===Anthologies and collections edited===

*''Stuart Palmer: The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers'' - 1947

*''Challenge to the Reader''—1938

*''John Dickson Carr: Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories'' - 1947

*''101 Years' Entertainment, The Great Detective Stories, 1841–1941''—1941

*''Roy Vickers: The Department of Dead Ends'' - 1947

*''MargerySporting AllinghamBlood: The CaseGreat BookSports ofDetective Mr. CampionStories'' - 1947—1942

*''The Female of the Species: Great Women Detectives and Criminals''—1943

*''20th Century Detective Stories'' - 1948

*''[[The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes]]''—1944

*''The Queen's Awards, 1948'' - 1948

*''The Best Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''—1944

*''Dashiell Hammett: Nightmare Town'' - 1948

*''Dashiell Hammett: The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories''—1944

*''O. Henry: Cops and Robbers'' - 1947

*''Rogues' Gallery: The Great Criminals of Modern Fiction''—1945

*''The Queen's Awards, 1949'' - 1949

*''To The Queen's Taste: The First Supplement to 101 Years' Entertainment, Consisting of the Best Stories Published in the First Five Years of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''—1946

*''The Literature of Crime: Stories by World-Famous Authors'' - 1950

*''The Queen's Awards, Fifth Series1946'' - 1950—1946

*''Dashiell Hammett: The CreepingContinental SiameseOp'' - 1950—1945

*''StuartDashiell PalmerHammett: The MonkeyReturn Murderof andthe OtherContinental StoriesOp'' - 1950—1945

*''Dashiell Hammett: Hammett Homicides''—1946

*''Murder By Experts''—1947

*''The Queen's Awards, 1947''—1947

*''Dashiell Hammett: Dead Yellow Women''—1947

*''Stuart Palmer: The Riddles of Hildegarde Withers''—1947

*''John Dickson Carr: Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories''—1947

*''Roy Vickers: The Department of Dead Ends''—1947

*''Margery Allingham: The Case Book of Mr. Campion''—1947

*''20th Century Detective Stories''—1948

*''The Queen's Awards, 1948''—1948

*''Dashiell Hammett: Nightmare Town''—1948

*''O. Henry: Cops and Robbers''—1947

*''The Queen's Awards, 1949''—1949

*''The Literature of Crime: Stories by World-Famous Authors''—1950

*''The Queen's Awards, Fifth Series''—1950

*''Dashiell Hammett: The Creeping Siamese''—1950

*''Stuart Palmer: The Monkey Murder and Other Stories''—1950

and many more

===Critical works===

*''The Detective Short Story: A Bibliography''—1942

*''Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story As Revealed by the 100 Most Important Books Published in this Field Since 1845''—1951

*''In the Queen's Parlor, and Other Leaves from the Editor's Notebook''—1957

===True crime===

Collections of true crime stories, which were written by Lee alone and originally published in ''[[The American Weekly]]'' magazine.

* ''Ellery Queen's International Case Book'' (1964)

* ''The Woman in the Case'' (1967)

== References ==

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==External links==

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*[http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/ Ellery Queen - a website on deduction]

* {{StandardEbooks|Standard Ebooks URL=https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ellery-queen}}

*[http://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/ Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Website with actual magazine excerpts]

* {{Gutenberg author|id=58407}}

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