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For the TV series, see Ellery Queen .


Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York: Daniel 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 novels that covered 42 years, Ellery Queen served as both author's name and that of the detective-hero. During the 1930s and much of the 1940s, that detective-hero was possibly the best known American fictional detective. 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 Language 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.

Under their collective pseudonym, the cousins were given the Grand Master Award for achievements in the field of the mystery story by the Mystery Writers of America in 1961.

"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."

The cousins also wrote four novels about a detective named Drury Lane using the pseudonym Barnaby Ross, and allowed the Ellery Queen name to be used as a house name for a number of novels written by other authors. (See Ellery Queen .)

"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 Poe, the most important American of mystery fiction."

Margery Allingham wrote that Ellery Queen had "done far more for the detective story than any other two men put together".

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Total Books: 553
The Egyptian Cross Mystery An Ellery Queen Mystery
2020 - The Egyptian Cross Mystery an Ellery Queen Mystery [Ellery Queen Mysteries] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781613161784
ISBN-10: 1613161786
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Siamese Twin Mystery
2020 - The Siamese Twin Mystery (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9781613161548
ISBN-10: 1613161549
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Finishing Stroke
2019 - The Finishing Stroke (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781625674098
ISBN-10: 1625674090
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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There Was an Old Woman
2019 - There Was an Old Woman (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781625674104
ISBN-10: 1625674104
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Devil to Pay
2019 - The Devil to Pay (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781625674111
ISBN-10: 1625674112
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Scarlet Letters
2019 - The Scarlet Letters (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781625674128
ISBN-10: 1625674120
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Greek Coffin Mystery
2019 - The Greek Coffin Mystery (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781504058186
ISBN-10: 1504058186
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The American Gun Mystery
2019 - The American Gun Mystery [Chinese Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9787513335188
ISBN-10: 7513335184
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The Dutch Shoe Mystery An Ellery Queen Mystery
2019 - The Dutch Shoe Mystery an Ellery Queen Mystery [An Ellery Queen Mystery] (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781613161265
ISBN-10: 1613161263
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Chinese Orange Mystery
2018 - The Chinese Orange Mystery [An Ellery Queen Mystery] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781613161067
ISBN-10: 1613161069
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Face to Face
2018 - Face to Face (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781625673084
ISBN-10: 1625673086
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Door Between
2018 - The Door Between (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9781625673107
ISBN-10: 1625673108
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Four of Hearts
2018 - The Four of Hearts (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781625673114
ISBN-10: 1625673116
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Murderer is a Fox
2018 - The Murderer Is a Fox (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781625673121
ISBN-10: 1625673124
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Halfway House
2018 - Halfway House (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781625673091
ISBN-10: 1625673094
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Misadventures of Ellery Queen
2018 - The Misadventures of Ellery Queen (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781479436286
ISBN-10: 1479436283
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Tragedy of Z
2017 - The Tragedy of Z [Chinese Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9787513323796
ISBN-10: 7513323798
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Drury Lane's Last Case
2017 - Drury Lane's Last Case [Chinese Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9787513323833
ISBN-10: 7513323836
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The Egyptian Cross Mystery
2016 - The Egyptian Cross Mystery [Chinese Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9787513321877
ISBN-10: 7513321876
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The Lamp of God
2016 - The Lamp of God [Chinese Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9787122246882
ISBN-10: 7122246884
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Ellery Queen Detective
2015 - Ellery Queen Detective [A Dell Comic Reprint] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781616463168
ISBN-10: 1616463163
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Comics & Graphic Novels
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2015 - The New Adventures of Ellery Queen [Ellery Queen Mysteries] (Audio CD)
2015 - Calendar of Crime [A Collection of Ellery Queen Short Stories] (Audio CD)
2015 - The Adventures of Ellery Queen [Ellery Queen Mysteries] (Audio CD)Audio CD
2015 - The Yellow Cat Mystery [Ellery Queen, Jr. Mysteries] (Audio CD)
2015 - The Golden Eagle Mystery [Ellery Queen, Jr. Mysteries] (Audio CD)
2015 - The Spanish Cape Mystery [Collected Works of Ellery Queen - Chinese Edition] (Paperback)
2015 - Which Way to Die [Tim Corrigan Mysteries, Book 5] (Audio CD)
2015 - Murder with a Past [Ellery Queen Mysteries] (Audio CD)
2014 - The Tragedy of X the First Drury Lane Mystery [Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1932 - Drury Lane Mysteries] (Audio CD)
2014 - The Tragedy of Y the Second Drury Lane Mystery [Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1932 - Drury Lane Mysteries] (Audio CD)
2014 - A Fine and Private Place [Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1971] (Audio CD)
2014 - A Study in Terror [Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1966] (Audio CD)
2014 - The King Is Dead [Ellery Queen Mysteries] (Audio CD)
2014 - The House of Brass [Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1968] (Audio CD)
2014 - The Last Woman in His Life [Ellery Queen Mysteries, 1970 - Ellery Queen Mysteries Audio] (Audio CD)
2014 - Cat of Many Tails [Ellery Queen Mysteries - The Ellery Queen Mysteries] (Audio CD)
2014 - The Origin of Evil [Ellery Queen Mysteries] (Audio CD)
2014 - Ten Days' Wonder [Ellery Queen Mysteries -1948] (Audio CD)
2014 - The Dragon's Teeth [Ellery Queen Mysteries - 1939] (Audio CD)
2014 - Calamity Town [Ellery Queen Mysteries -1942 - The Ellery Queen Mysteries] (Audio CD)
2013 - The Spanish Cape Mystery Lib/e [Ellery Queen Mysteries] (Audio CD)
2009 - The Player on the Other Side [Chinese Edition] (Paperback)
2009 - Tragedy of Y [Chinese Edition] (Paperback)
1998 - The Dutch Shoe Mystery [G K Hall Large Print Book Series Paper] (Paperback)
1992 - Ellery Queen's More Eyewitnesses [Curley Large Print Books] (Hardcover)
1990 - Ellery Queen's Crime Cruise Round the World [Curley Large Print Books] (Paperback)Hardcover
1986 - The Tragedy of Y [Drury Lane, Bk 2] (Paperback)
1983 - The Siamese Twin Mystery / Kill As Directed [Ellery Queen 2 Full Novels] (Paperback)
1982 - Spanish Cape Mystery [Large Print] (Paperback)
1982 - The Killer Touch / the Devil's Cook [Signet Double Mysteries] (Paperback)
1978 - Wife or Death / the Golden Goose [Signet Double Mysteries] (Paperback)
1977 - Q B I [Queen's Bureau of Investigation] (Paperback)
1975 - The Blue Movie Murders [Penguin crime fiction] (Paperback)
1970 - Faces (Paperback)
The King Is Dead an Ellery Queen Mystery [Thorndike Press Large Print Paperback Series] (Paperback)
Eyes of Mystery [Curley Large Print Books] (Paperback)
Ellery Queen's Windows of Mystery [Curley Large Print Books] (Paperback)
Murderer Is a Fox [An Ellery Queen mystery] (Hardcover)
Masks of Mystery [Curley Large Print Books] (Paperback)
The King Is Dead Library Edition [The Ellery Queen Mysteries] (Audio CD)
Blow Hot Blow Cold Library Edition [Ellery Queen Mysteries] (Audio CD)
Tragedy of Y 1932 [In Japanese Language] (Other)