The Adventure of the Telltale Bottle (1946)

November means Thanksgiving, and the story starts with Ellery humbugging the holiday. Ellery tells Nikki, “I say, if we must Continue reading →

The Adventure of the Dead Cat (1946)

Right on the heels of the back-to school September story comes the Halloween story. Like the story before it, the Continue reading →

The Murderer is a Fox (1945)

So, here was “The Greatest Generation” finishing up World War II, welcomed home to great applause, and Ellery Queen writes Continue reading →

There Was an Old Woman (1943)

So, after Calamity Town, a step back to the screwball comedy. Ellery returns to New York City, and he and Continue reading →

Calamity Town (1942)

Three years after their most most recent published novel, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee published Calamity Town, a novel Continue reading →

Expanding the Queen’s Empire (1940-1942)

There were several reasons the cousins did not publish any prose fiction in 1940 and 1941. Foremost is that they Continue reading →

The Dragon’s Teeth (1939)

  And then came The Dragon’s Teeth, which ended Ellery’s Hollywood era, and simultaneously sent Ellery’s career on a totally Continue reading →

Trojan Horse (1939)

The last in the four-part sports mysteries involves college football, and one donor’s obsession with his alma mater’s team. This Continue reading →