Ellery Queen

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Ellery Queen


Born
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, The United States
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aka Barnaby Ross.
(Pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)
"Ellery Queen" was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery.

Although eventually famous on television and radio, Queen's first appearance came in 1928 when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book that would eventually be published as The Roman Hat Mystery. Their character was an amateur detective who used his spare time to assist his police inspector f
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Average rating: 3.69 · 38,547 ratings · 4,383 reviews · 1,749 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Roman Hat Mystery (Elle...

3.54 avg rating — 3,571 ratings — published 1929 — 92 editions
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The Greek Coffin Mystery (E...

3.67 avg rating — 1,902 ratings — published 1932 — 105 editions
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The French Powder Mystery (...

3.79 avg rating — 1,740 ratings — published 1930 — 82 editions
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The Chinese Orange Mystery ...

3.64 avg rating — 1,777 ratings — published 1934 — 87 editions
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The Dutch Shoe Mystery (Ell...

3.63 avg rating — 1,597 ratings — published 1931 — 96 editions
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The Egyptian Cross Mystery ...

3.76 avg rating — 1,461 ratings — published 1932 — 101 editions
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The Siamese Twin Mystery (E...

3.63 avg rating — 1,478 ratings — published 1933 — 2 editions
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Cat of Many Tails (Ellery Q...

3.85 avg rating — 1,121 ratings — published 1949 — 11 editions
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The Adventures of Ellery Queen

3.87 avg rating — 998 ratings — published 1968
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The Spanish Cape Mystery (E...

3.75 avg rating — 954 ratings — published 1935 — 101 editions
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“It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder.”
Ellery Queen, The Player on the Other Side

“Had Walter ever read Bernard Shaw (he had not), he might have been pleased with the line, "When you have learned something, my dear, it often feels at first as if you had lost something.”
Ellery Queen, The Player on the Other Side

“The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and listened to you altogether.”
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