The Phantom Train (1952)

Originally published as “The Phantom Train” in This Week, August 31, 1952, and appearing in QBI as “Magic Dept.: Snowball 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 →

The Long Shot (1939)

The second of the Ellery Queen sports mysteries to appear in Blue Book magazine (September, 1939) may very well be Continue reading →

The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1939-1948)

In 1938, Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee began writing scripts for radio shows.  They broke their teeth writing for Alias Continue reading →

The Devil to Pay (1938)

Here comes another change to the Ellery Queen mysteries: This is the first novel or short story where the title Continue reading →

The Adventure of the Bleeding Portrait (1937)

This short story starts out strongly: The witty banter is, so far, the best and wittiest to date. Ellery is, Continue reading →

The American Gun Mystery (1933)

The yellow pinto station wagon threw up a cloud of dust as it raced toward the parking lot at the Continue reading →