Terror in a Penthouse (1956)

I can just picture the cousins arguing with the editor of This Week over the title of this short story. Continue reading →

The Wrights- ville Heirs (1956)

Once more we go to Wrightsville, the small town that was purportedly murder free until Ellery Queen showed up. There Continue reading →

The Blackboard Gangsters (1955)

The 1950s were an anxious decade in the United States. While the quality of life for many Americans was greater Continue reading →

The Bride in Danger (1955)

The cousins only produced two Ellery Queen stories in 1955, published in August and September. There were no novels published Continue reading →

Diamonds in Paradise (1954)

After Queen’s Bureau of Investigation was published, there were no Ellery Queen short story collections until 1965, when Queen’s Full Continue reading →

GI Story (1954)

The cousins would publish a few more stories in This Week over the next few years, but they also branched Continue reading →

The Glass Village (1954)

Originally, this novel starred Ellery Queen, and took place in Wrightsville, but halfway through, the cousins changed the Ellery character Continue reading →

A Question of Honor (1953)

Here’s another one of those typical mysteries where there are three suspects (Ackley, Benson & Chase, in this case), and Continue reading →