Ellery Queen

Trick I - The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear - each as dead as the other. Trick II - From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a...

Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds....

Frightfully rich and awesomely respectable, the McKells had never been touched by scandal. At least, not until the handsome Dane McKell discovered his father's secret affair....

In the merry month of May, Ellery Queen made a trek to Gettysburg to witness an annual celebration - and an annual murder....

Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town. At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville....

When Abigail Doorn was wheeled into the operation room at the Dutch Memorial Hospital, her face was strangely blue and bloated....

During the 11 nights before Christmas, the strange gifts and the warnings came. Ellery Queen was there....

Ellery had a simple case....

French's department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele....

In New York City in the early 1930s, a man is poisoned on a crowded streetcar during rush hour. Everyone sees Longstreet die - but no one sees the killer....

The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a small town's Christmas. It's Christmas in Chicago, and Detective Richard Queen is enjoying a busman's holiday at a conference on gangland violence....

In these ripping short stories, the mystery genre's greatest sleuth shows his chops....

Let Ellery Queen clue you in on his special brand of high tension, brain-teasing mystery! This collection consists of novelettes and short stories from Queen's many escapades. Stories include: "Mum Is the Word" "Object Lesson" "No Parking" "No Place to Live" "Miracles Do Happen" "The Lonely...

Some bizarre things have been happening to the eccentric Hatter family. First, the body of York Hatter is recovered from the ocean. But he didn't drown. He died of poison....

For years, Inspector Richard Queen had been outshone by his writer son. Now, with Ellery away, he had a case all his own....

While stranded in the desert, Ellery Queen stumbles across a religious cult. It's 1943, the war is raging, and sleuthing scribe Ellery Queen wants to do his bit. After a tortuous cross-country drive, he takes a job writing scripts for a Hollywood propaganda house - twelve hours a day of hack...

In one of his earliest cases, Ellery Queen confronts a murder in blue blood....

On a seaside vacation, Ellery Queen is ensnared in a trio of strange crimes....

A mystery set in a large occupied theater with an unexplained mystery.

Queen's Bureau of Investigation is now open for business - and in each department of this new enterprise, Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise the brilliant, ingenious, and at times startling talents of his crime-lab mind. For to the bureau come some of the most plaguey cases in Queen's...