Order of Ellery Queen Books
Ellery Queen is the collective pen name of the writing team consisting of cousins Frederic Dannay (Daniel Nathan) and Manfred Bennington Lee (Manford Lepofsky), who wrote detective fiction together. Most of their novels featured a fictional character also by the name of Ellery Queen. The character has been adapted to TV, film and radio. In addition to the Ellery Queen novels, the cousins also wrote a series featuring a Shakespearean actor named Drury Lane (writing as Barnaby Ross).
Ellery Queen debuted with the novel The Roman Hat Mystery, which was published in 1929. Their final novel was published in 1971, which was entitled A Fine and Private Place. Below is a list of Ellery Queen’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Drury Lane Books
(as Barnaby Ross)
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The Tragedy of X |
(1932) |
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The Tragedy of Y |
(1932) |
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The Tragedy of Z |
(1933) |
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Drury Lane’s Last Case |
(1933) |
Publication Order of Ellery Queen Detective Books
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The Roman Hat Mystery |
(1929) |
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The French Powder Mystery |
(1930) |
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The Dutch Shoe Mystery |
(1931) |
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The Greek Coffin Mystery |
(1932) |
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The Egyptian Cross Mystery |
(1932) |
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The American Gun Mystery / Death at the Rodeo |
(1933) |
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The Siamese Twin Mystery |
(1933) |
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The Chinese Orange Mystery |
(1934) |
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The Lamp of God |
(1935) |
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The Spanish Cape Mystery |
(1935) |
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Halfway House |
(1936) |
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The Door Between |
(1936) |
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The Four of Hearts |
(1938) |
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The Devil to Pay |
(1938) |
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The Dragon’s Teeth / The Virgin Heiresses |
(1939) |
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The Penthouse Mystery |
(1941) |
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Calamity Town |
(1942) |
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The Perfect Crime |
(1942) |
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There Was an Old Woman / The Quick and the Dead |
(1943) |
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The Murderer is a Fox |
(1945) |
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Ten Days’ Wonder |
(1948) |
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Cat of Many Tails |
(1949) |
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Double, Double / The Case of the Seven Murders |
(1950) |
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The Origin of Evil |
(1951) |
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The King is Dead |
(1952) |
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The Golden Summer |
(1953) |
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The Scarlet Letters |
(1953) |
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The Glass Village |
(1954) |
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Inspector Queen’s Own Case |
(1957) |
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The Finishing Stroke |
(1958) |
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Queens Full |
(1960) |
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Dead Man’s Tale |
(1961) |
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Death Spins the Platter |
(1962) |
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The Player On Other Side |
(1963) |
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Kill as Directed |
(1963) |
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Murder with a Past |
(1963) |
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And on the Eighth Day |
(1964) |
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Four Men Called John |
(1964) |
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Ellery Queen’s Lethal Black Book |
(1965) |
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The Fourth Side of the Triangle |
(1965) |
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A Study in Terror |
(1966) |
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Losers, weepers |
(1966) |
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Shoot The Scene |
(1966) |
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The Madman Theory |
(1966) |
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Face to Face |
(1967) |
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Q.E.D. Queen’s Experiments in Detection |
(1968) |
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House of Brass |
(1968) |
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The Devil’s Cook |
(1968) |
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Cop Out |
(1969) |
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The Last Woman in His Life |
(1970) |
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Ellery Queen’s Poetic Justice |
(1970) |
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A Fine and Private Place |
(1971) |
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Blow Hot Blow Cold |
(1974) |
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The House of Brass |
(1978) |
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective |
(2020) |
Publication Order of Ellery Queen Jr. Mystery Books
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The Black Dog Mystery |
(1941) |
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The Black Dog Mystery |
(1941) |
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The Green Turtle Mystery |
(1944) |
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The Red Chipmunk Mystery |
(1946) |
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The Brown Fox Mystery |
(1948) |
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The Golden Eagle Mystery |
(1948) |
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The Brown Fox Mystery |
(1948) |
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The White Elephant Mystery |
(1950) |
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The White Elephant Mystery |
(1950) |
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The Yellow Cat Mystery |
(1952) |
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The Yellow Cat Mystery |
(1952) |
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The Mystery of the Vanished Victim |
(1954) |
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The Mystery of the Merry Magician |
(1954) |
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The Blue Herring Mystery |
(1954) |
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The Mystery of the Merry Magician |
(1961) |
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The Mystery of the Vanished Victim |
(1962) |
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The Purple Bird Mystery |
(1965) |
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The Purple Bird Mystery |
(1965) |
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Publication Order of Tim Corrigan Books
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Where Is Bianca? |
(1966) |
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How Goes the Murder? |
(1966) |
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Who Spies, Who Kills? |
(1966) |
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Why So Dead? |
(1966) |
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Which Way to Die? |
(1967) |
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Guess Who’s Coming to Kill You? |
(1968) |
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What’s in the Dark? |
(1969) |
Publication Order of Mike McCall Books
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The Campus Murders |
(1969) |
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The Black Hearts Murder |
(1970) |
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The Blue Movie Murders |
(1973) |
Publication Order of Masterpieces of Mystery Books
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Masterpieces of Mystery |
(1976) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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Player on the Other Side |
(1963) |
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Wife or Death |
(1963) |
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The Last Score |
(1964) |
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The Killer Touch |
(1965) |
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Beware the Young Stranger |
(1965) |
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The Copper Frame |
(1965) |
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A Room To Die In |
(1965) |
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Penthouse Mystery, The |
(1968) |
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The Most Wanted Man In The World |
(1968) |
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Kiss and Kill |
(1969) |
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When Fell The Night |
(1970) |
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Door Between |
(1972) |
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Eyes of Mystery |
(1981) |
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House of Darkness |
(2010) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
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The Adventures of Ellery Queen |
(1933) |
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The New Adventures of Ellery Queen |
(1939) |
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Calendar of Crime |
(1952) |
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QBI: Queen’s Bureau of Investigation |
(1965) |
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QED: Queen’s Experiments in Detection |
(1968) |
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Kindly Dig Your Grave and Other Wicked Stories |
(1977) |
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The Tragedy of Errors and Others |
(1999) |
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The Adventure of the Murdered Moths and Other Radio Mysteries |
(2004) |
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The Adventures of the Murdered Moths |
(2004) |
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The Adventures of the Puzzle Club |
(2022) |
Publication Order of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Annual Books
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Ellery Queen’s Crime Carousel |
(1960) |
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Ellery Queen’s 16th Mystery Annual |
(1961) |
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To Be Read Before Midnight |
(1962) |
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Ellery Queen All Stars |
(1967) |
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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Parade |
(1968) |
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Ellery Queen’s Mini Mysteries |
(1969) |
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Ellery Queen’s Mystery Bag |
(1972) |
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Ellery Queen’s Best Bets |
(1972) |
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Ellery Queen’s Crookbook |
(1974) |
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Ellery Queen’s Book Of Mystery Stories |
(1974) |
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Ellery Queen’s Murdercade |
(1975) |
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Ellery Queen’s Crime Wave |
(1976) |
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Ellery Queen’s Giants of Mystery |
(1976) |
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Ellery Queen’s Magicians Of Mystery |
(1976) |
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X Marks the Plot |
(1977) |
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Ellery Queen’s Crimes and Consequences |
(1977) |
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Ellery Queen’s International Case Book |
(1977) |
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Ellery Queen’s Cops And Capers |
(1977) |
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Ellery Queen’s Japanese Golden Dozen |
(1978) |
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Ellery Queen’s The Golden 13 |
(1980) |
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Ellery Queen’s Crime Cruise Round the World |
(1981) |
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Ellery Queen’s Veils of Mystery |
(1981) |
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Ellery Queen’s Doors to Mystery |
(1981) |
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Ellery Queen’s Maze Of Mysteries |
(1982) |
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Ellery Queen’s Book of First Appearances |
(1982) |
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Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes |
(1984) |
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Ellery Queen’s Crimes and Punishments |
(1984) |
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Ellery Queen’s Prime Crimes Two |
(1985) |
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Ellery Queen’s a Multitude of Sins |
(1986) |
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Ellery Queen’s Circumstantial Evidence |
(1987) |
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Ellery Queen’s Champions Of Mystery |
(1987) |
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Ellery Queen’s Masks of Mystery |
(1988) |
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Ellery Queen’s Crime Cruise Round the World |
(1989) |
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Ellery Queen’s More Lost Ladies and Lost Men |
(1989) |
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Ellerys Queen’s Masters of Mystery |
(1989) |
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Ellery Queen’s Eyewitnesses |
(1991) |
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Ellery Queen’s Screen Favourites |
(1991) |
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Ellery Queen’s More Eyewitnesses |
(1992) |
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Ellery Queen’s Edgar Award Winners |
(1992) |
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Ellery Queen’s Faces of Mystery |
(1992) |
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Ellery Queen’s Other Faces of Mystery |
(1994) |
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Ellery Queen’s Windows Of Mystery |
(1994) |
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Ellery Queen’s Searches and Seizures |
(1995) |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction |
(1948) |
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20 Great Tales of Murder |
(1952) |
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Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine Volume 1 Number 1, January 1954 |
(1954) |
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July 1958 |
(1958) |
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The Locked Room Reader: Stories of Impossible Crimes and Escapes |
(1968) |
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Daring Detectives |
(1969) |
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American City |
(1972) |
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Space Suits & Gumshoes |
(1972) |
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Chapter and Hearse |
(1985) |
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Deadly Arts |
(1985) |
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Wickedest Show on Earth |
(1985) |
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Handle with Care: Frightening Stories |
(1985) |
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Murder for Christmas |
(1987) |
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Great Baseball Stories |
(1990) |
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Great Tales of Crime and Detection |
(1992) |
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Fifty Best Mysteries |
(1993) |
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The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories |
(1996) |
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The Oxford Book of Detective Stories |
(2000) |
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The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century |
(2000) |
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A Century of Great Suspense Stories |
(2001) |
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The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction |
(2004) |
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The Further Misadventures of Ellery Queen |
(2020) |
Notes: The Dragon’s Teeth was also published as The Virgin Heiresses. There Was an Old Woman was also titled The Quick and the Dead. A Study in Terror was also published as Ellery Queen vs. Jack The Ripper and as Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper. The Player on the Other Side was ghostwritten by Theodore Sturgeon. And On the Eighth Day, The Fourth Side of the Triangle and The House of Brass were ghostwritten by Avram Davidson. The Drury Lane series was originally written using the pseudonym of Barnaby Ross.