Ellery Queen
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 the greatest puzzle-mysteries of their time, gaining the duo a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery. Eventually famous on television and radio, Queen's first appearance came in 1929 when the cousins won a mystery-writing...See more
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 the greatest puzzle-mysteries of their time, gaining the duo a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery. Eventually famous on television and radio, Queen's first appearance came in 1929 when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book that would eventually be published as The Roman Hat Mystery . Besides co-writing the Queen novels, Dannay founded 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 the fictional Queen upon Lee's death. See less
Ellery Queen's Featured Books
Ellery Queen book reviews
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Cat of Many Tails
Unappreciated Serial Murder Classic
Ellery Queen's late novel, Cat of Many Tails, conceived and written by the original team behind the early EQ mysteries is a fantastic serial murder mystery in the "City in Peril" modality. It is ... Read More
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The Siamese Twin Mystery
One of my favorites
This Ellery Queen mystery was one of my favorites. Ellery and Inspector Queen attempt to solve a murder or two, while trapped by a raging forest fire in a remote mountain hideaway. This one had ... Read More
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The Greek Coffin Mystery
Dig that crazy Greek Coffin
by xx11, Jan 3, 2008
In the thousands of endlessly boring and routine detective stories, particularly those dreadful "procedurals", where the reader is told everything except for why they're wasting their time , this ... Read More