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Ellery Queen


(Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)
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aka Barnaby RossX

Ellery Queen is the pseudonym of cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. Ellery Queen is also the name of their famous detective who has appeared in more than 30 novels and 70 short stories. He has been on the radio, in the movies, on television, and in comic books. The Mystery Writers of America gave Queen 7 Edgar awards and its coveted Grand Master award. Dannay and Lee also founded and edited Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine which, at 61 years and still going, is the longest running mystery anthology magazine in American history. They wrote Queen's Quorum, a scholarly examination of the detective short story, and edited more than 90 books of detective fiction. Worldwide, their books have sold more than 150 million copies.
 


Genres: Children's Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
 
Series
Drury Lane (as by Barnaby RossX)
   1. The Tragedy of X (1932)
   2. The Tragedy of Y (1932)
   3. The Tragedy of Z (1933)
   4. Drury Lane's Last Case (1933)
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Novels
   The Roman Hat Mystery (1929)
   The French Powder Mystery (1930)
   The Dutch Shoe Mystery (1931)
   The Egyptian Cross Mystery (1932)
   The Greek Coffin Mystery (1932)
   The American Gun Mystery (1933)
     aka Death At the Rodeo
   The Siamese Twin Mystery (1933)
   The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934)
   The Lamp of God (1935)
   The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)
   Halfway House (1936)
   The Door Between (1937)
   The Four of Hearts (1938)
   The Devil to Pay (1938)
   The Dragon's Teeth (1939)
     aka The Virgin Heiresses
   The Penthouse Mystery (1941)
   Calamity Town (1942)
   The Perfect Crime (1942)
   There Was an Old Woman (1943)
     aka The Quick And the Dead
   The Murderer Is a Fox (1945)
   Ten Day's Wonder (1948)
   Cat of Many Tails (1949)
   Double, Double (1950)
     aka The Case of the Seven Murders
   The Origin of Evil (1951)
   The King Is Dead (1952)
   The Golden Summer (1953)
   The Scarlet Letters (1953)
   The Glass Village (1954)
   Inspector Queen's Own Case (1956)
   The Finishing Stroke (1958)
   Dead Man's Tale (1961)
   Death Spins the Platter (1962)
   Kill As Directed (1963)
   Murder with a Past (1963)
   The Player On The Other Side (1963)
   Wife or Death (1963)
   And on the Eighth Day (1964) (with Avram Davidson)
   Blow Hot, Blow Cold (1964)
   The Four Johns (1964)
   The Golden Goose (1964)
   The Last Score (1964)
   The Fourth Side of the Triangle (1965) (with Avram Davidson)
   Beware the Young Stranger (1965)
   The Copper Frame (1965)
   The Killer Touch (1965)
   A Room to Die In (1965)
   The Devil's Cook (1966)
   Losers, Weepers (1966)
   The Madman Theory (1966)
   Shoot the Scene (1966)
   A Study in Terror (1966)
   Face to Face (1967)
   Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (1967)
   Guess Who's Coming to Kill You? (1968)
   The House of Brass (1968)
   Cop Out (1969)
   Kiss and Kill (1969)
   The Last Woman in His Life (1970)
   A Fine and Private Place (1971)
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Collections
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Anthologies edited
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Books containing stories by Ellery Queen

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Award nominations
1964 Edgar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Player On The Other Side
1962 Edgar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Ellery Queen 1962 Anthology


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