The Lamp of God (1935)

The House of Haunts, a novella, was originally published in Street & Smiths Detective Story Magazine in October, 1935. The Continue reading →

The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)

In The Chinese Orange Mystery the victim was stripped naked and re-dressed with his clothes on backwards in order to Continue reading →

The Chinese Orange Mystery (1934)

A locked room, a corpse. This time, everything in the room is reversed, including the dead man’s clothing.  International queries Continue reading →

The Adventure of the Teakwood Case (1933)

The May, 1933 (Volume 7, #5)  issue of Mystery  saw Ellery Queen’s second published short story, “The Affair of the Continue reading →

The Adventure of the One-Penny Black (1933)

Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee’s first published short story appeared in the second issue of Great Detective Magazine in April Continue reading →

The Adventure of the African Traveler (1933)

In the early months of 1933, the cousins expanded further, this time into the realm of short stories.  The lucrative Continue reading →