Ellery Queen

A mystery set in a large occupied theater with an unexplained mystery.

The Queens are intrigued when a grisly murder mars a small town's Christmas. It's Christmas in Chicago, and Detective Richard Queen is enjoying a busman's holiday at a conference on gangland violence....

Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds....

The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear....

Ellery Queen's latest adventure is a satirical murder-comedy that combines hilarity with the deadly macabre....

Step into the captivating world of detective fiction with "The Roman Hat Mystery," where the legendary duo of Inspector Richard Queen and his son, Ellery Queen, takes center stage.

French's department store was famous for the rare merchandise it offered its elite clientele....

When Abigail Doorn was wheeled into the operation room at the Dutch Memorial Hospital, her face was strangely blue and bloated....

In one of his earliest cases, Ellery Queen confronts a murder in blue blood....

The New York City Theatre District provides the backdrop in this locked-room mystery, the first of many featuring Inspector Richard Queen and his son, Ellery Queen!

In these ripping short stories, the mystery genre's greatest sleuth shows his chops....

In the merry month of May, Ellery Queen made a trek to Gettysburg to witness an annual celebration - and an annual murder....

Frightfully rich and awesomely respectable, the McKells had never been touched by scandal. At least, not until the handsome Dane McKell discovered his father's secret affair....

Let Ellery Queen clue you in on his special brand of high tension, brain-teasing mystery....

Queen's Bureau of Investigation is now open for business - and in each department of this new enterprise Ellery finds ample opportunity to exercise his crime-lab mind....

A twisted mind was committing murder according to an old nursery rhyme....

In New York City in the early 1930s, a man is poisoned on a crowded streetcar during rush hour. Everyone sees Longstreet die - but no one sees the killer....

While stranded in the desert, Ellery Queen stumbles across a religious cult....

Nino Importuna had been obsessed with the number. He had lived by it. Now the killer who brought a trio of gory deaths to Nino's ninth-floor penthouse at Number 99 East was camouflaging his identity....

This rare volume is a collection of some of Queen's best, containing three novelettes and two short stories....