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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 →

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 →

Mind Over Matter (1939)

The third of the Ellery Queen sports mystery short stories, with special guest Paula Paris, takes place at a New 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 →

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