Order of Ellery Queen Detective Books
Ellery Queen is the protagonist in a series of detective fiction/mystery novels written under the pen name of Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee). The character is an author who writes the books he appears in, and later on, writes screenplays. He ends up working as an amateur detective, having to help out his father, who is a detective in New York City.
The Ellery Queen series began in 1929 with the novel The Roman Hat Mystery. The series concluded in 1971 with the novel A Fine and Private Place. Below is a list of the Ellery Queen books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Ellery Queen Detective Books
The Roman Hat Mystery | (1929) | |
The French Powder Mystery | (1930) | |
The Dutch Shoe Mystery | (1931) | |
The Greek Coffin Mystery | (1932) | |
The Egyptian Cross Mystery | (1932) | |
The American Gun Mystery / Death at the Rodeo | (1933) | |
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 | (1936) | |
The Four of Hearts | (1938) | |
The Devil to Pay | (1938) | |
The Dragon’s Teeth / The Virgin Heiresses | (1939) | |
The Penthouse Mystery | (1941) | |
Calamity Town | (1942) | |
The Perfect Crime | (1942) | |
There Was an Old Woman / The Quick and the Dead | (1943) | |
The Murderer is a Fox | (1945) | |
Ten Days’ Wonder | (1948) | |
Cat of Many Tails | (1949) | |
Double, Double / The Case of the Seven Murders | (1950) | |
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 | (1957) | |
The Finishing Stroke | (1958) | |
Queens Full | (1960) | |
Dead Man’s Tale | (1961) | |
Death Spins the Platter | (1962) | |
The Player On Other Side | (1963) | |
Kill as Directed | (1963) | |
Murder with a Past | (1963) | |
And on the Eighth Day | (1964) | |
Four Men Called John | (1964) | |
Ellery Queen’s Lethal Black Book | (1965) | |
The Fourth Side of the Triangle | (1965) | |
A Study in Terror | (1966) | |
Losers, weepers | (1966) | |
Shoot The Scene | (1966) | |
The Madman Theory | (1966) | |
Face to Face | (1967) | |
Q.E.D. Queen’s Experiments in Detection | (1968) | |
House of Brass | (1968) | |
The Devil’s Cook | (1968) | |
Cop Out | (1969) | |
The Last Woman in His Life | (1970) | |
Ellery Queen’s Poetic Justice | (1970) | |
A Fine and Private Place | (1971) | |
Blow Hot Blow Cold | (1974) | |
The House of Brass | (1978) | |
Ellery Queen, Master Detective | (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.