The Player on the Other Side (1963)

This book was advertised as the first new novel about Ellery and his father in five years. Let’s do the Continue reading →

Last Man to Die (1963)

“Last Man to Die” (November 3, 1963) was the last Ellery Queen story to appear in This Week. Mercifully. Although Continue reading →

Half a Clue to Murder (1963)

From August 25, 1963, and reprinted in QED as “Murder Dept: Half a Clue,” this is another standard story of Continue reading →

Enter Ellery Queen (1960)

From the June, 1960 issue of short story anthology Argosy, reprinted in Q.E.D. as “Mystery at the Library of Congress,” Continue reading →

The Finishing Stroke (1958)

Here is the second last Ellery Queen novel. The first last Ellery Queen novel, Ten Days Wonder, saw the detective Continue reading →

The Case Against Carroll (1958)

Here is one of the cousin’s best novellas. The super-short stories they had been churning out for This Week really Continue reading →

Inspector Queen’s Own Case (1956)

I can well imagine this book springing to life in the mid-nineteen fifties, as American culture sped towards serving the 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 →